The Cost of Government Failure
Every dollar below is sourced from official government reports — Auditor General, Parliamentary Budget Officer, Health Canada, and Treasury Board. This is not opinion. This is the government's own accounting of its own failures.
The Ledger
Documented Financial Failures — Running Total
CERB/Pandemic Benefits — Unverified Recipients
$32B paid to unverified recipients including deceased individuals and fraudulent identities. Standard verification deliberately waived.
AG Report →Phoenix Pay System — Total Cost of Failure
Original estimate: $309M. Actual cost: $9.3B+. 216,000 transactions still backlogged. Won't be fixed until 2031.
Full analysis →Budget 2025 Projected Deficit
Finance Minister Champagne's "Canada Strong" budget projects $78.3B deficit on $585.9B in expenditures. Deficit target 2029-30: $56.6B.
Fiscal data →MAID — Palliative Care Costs Avoided
76,475 deaths × $20,685 savings per death vs. palliative care. The healthcare system saved $1.58B by administering death instead of care.
MAID economics →ArriveCAN — Procurement Fraud
COVID questionnaire outsourced to 2-person firm. 76% of subcontractors did no work. AG found systematic procurement failures.
Full analysis →Top 102 MAID Physicians — Provider Payments
102 physicians earned $18M from MAID billing. Average 373 deaths each. 428 regulatory violations, zero police referrals.
Provider data →Brookfield Maple Fund — Federal Investment Request
PM Carney's former employer pitched a $50B infrastructure fund to the government he now leads. $10B directly requested from federal treasury.
Brookfield analysis →RUNNING TOTAL
Documented from official government sources. Does not include unmeasured waste, hidden costs, or long-term economic damage.
Per-Capita Impact
~$2,500 per Canadian.
$103B ÷ 41M population = approximately $2,500 per person.
A family of four: ~$10,000 in documented government failure costs.
This does not include unmeasured waste, opportunity costs, or the economic damage
from institutional dysfunction.
Primary records on this file.
The Cost of Government Failure. A TENET5 public-record file — open the primary sources cited on this page before treating any figure as settled.