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Pay increase for Governor General since 2019 is more than average Canadian annual salary

From the Canadian Taxpayers Federation
By Ryan Thorpe
The salary for Canada’s Governor General has skyrocketed by just over $75,000 since 2019. Meanwhile the average annual salary among all full-time workers in Canada was roughly $70,000 in 2024
Governor General Mary Simon pocketed a $15,200 pay raise this year, bumping her annual salary for 2025 up to $378,000.
This marks Simon’s fourth pay raise since she was appointed governor general in 2021, meaning she now makes $49,300 more than when she took on the role.
“Can anyone in government explain how Canadians are getting more value from the governor general, because her taxpayer-funded salary just increased by more than $1,200 a month,” said Franco Terrazzano, CTF Federal Director. “The automatic-pay-raise culture in Ottawa is ridiculous and politicians and bureaucrats shouldn’t expect more money every year just because they’re on the taxpayer payroll.”
The Canadian Taxpayers Federation confirmed Simon’s current salary and the details of her latest pay raise with the Privy Council Office.
“For 2025, the Governor General’s salary, which is determined in accordance with the provisions of the Governor General’s Act … is $378,000,” a PCO spokesperson told the CTF.
The federal government hiked the governor general’s annual salary by $75,200 (or 25 per cent) since 2019.
Meanwhile, the average annual salary among all full-time workers in Canada was roughly $70,000 in 2024, according to Statistics Canada data.
“Canadians can’t afford to keep paying more for a largely symbolic role,” Terrazzano said. “The governor general already takes a huge taxpayer-funded salary and she should show leadership by refusing this year’s pay hike.”
On top of the $378,000 annual salary, the governor general receives a range of lucrative perks, including a taxpayer-funded mansion, a platinum pension, a clothing budget, paid dry cleaning services and lavish travel expenses.
Former governors general are eligible for a full pension, of about $150,000 a year, regardless of how long they serve in office.
Even though Simon’s predecessor, Julie Payette, served in the role for a little more than three years, she will receive an estimated $4.8 million if she collects her pension till the age of 90.
The CTF estimates that Canada’s five former governors general will receive more than $18 million if they collect their pensions until the age of 90.
Even after leaving office, former governors general can also expense taxpayers for up to $206,000 annually for the rest of their lives, continuing up to six months after their deaths.
In May 2023, the National Post reported the governor general can expense up to $130,000 in clothing during their five-year mandates, with a $60,000 cap during the first year.
Simon and Payette combined to expense $88,000 in clothing since 2017, including a velvet dress with silk lining, designer gloves, suits, shoes and scarves, among other items.
Rideau Hall expensed $117,000 in dry-cleaning services since 2018, despite having in-house staff responsible for laundry – an average dry cleaning tab of more than $1,800 per month.
In 2022, Simon’s first full year on the job, she spent $2.7 million on travel, according to government records obtained by the CTF.
Simon’s travel has sparked multiple controversies, including a $100,000 bill for in-flight catering during a weeklong trip to the Middle East, and her $71,000 bill at IceLimo Luxury Travel during a four-day trip to Iceland.
“Platinum pay and perks for the governor general should have been reined in a long time ago,” Terrazzano said. “The government should stop rubberstamping pay raises for the governor general every year, end the expense account for former governors general, reform the platinum pension, scrap the clothing allowance and cut all international travel except for meetings with the monarchy.”
Table: Annual Governor General Salary, per PCO data
Year |
GG Salary |
2019 |
$302,800 |
2020 |
$310,100 |
2021 |
$328,700 |
2022 |
$342,100 |
2023 |
$351,600 |
2024 |
$362,800 |
2025 |
$378,000 |
Business
RFK Jr. says Hep B vaccine is linked to 1,135% higher autism rate

From LifeSiteNews
By Matt Lamb
They got rid of all the older children essentially and just had younger children who were too young to be diagnosed and they stratified that, stratified the data
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) found newborn babies who received the Hepatitis B vaccine had 1,135-percent higher autism rates than those who did not or received it later in life, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. told Tucker Carlson recently. However, the CDC practiced “trickery” in its studies on autism so as not to implicate vaccines, Kennedy said.
RFK Jr., who is the current Secretary of Health and Human Services, said the CDC buried the results by manipulating the data. Kennedy has pledged to find the causes of autism, with a particular focus on the role vaccines may play in the rise in rates in the past decades.
The Hepatitis B shot is required by nearly every state in the U.S. for children to attend school, day care, or both. The CDC recommends the jab for all babies at birth, regardless of whether their mother has Hep B, which is easily diagnosable and commonly spread through sexual activity, piercings, and tattoos.
“They kept the study secret and then they manipulated it through five different iterations to try to bury the link and we know how they did it – they got rid of all the older children essentially and just had younger children who were too young to be diagnosed and they stratified that, stratified the data,” Kennedy told Carlson for an episode of the commentator’s podcast. “And they did a lot of other tricks and all of those studies were the subject of those kind of that kind of trickery.”
But now, Kennedy said, the CDC will be conducting real and honest scientific research that follows the highest standards of evidence.
“We’re going to do real science,” Kennedy said. “We’re going to make the databases public for the first time.”
He said the CDC will be compiling records from variety of sources to allow researchers to do better studies on vaccines.
“We’re going to make this data available for independent scientists so everybody can look at it,” the HHS secretary said.
— Matt Lamb (@MattLamb22) July 1, 2025
Health and Human Services also said it has put out grant requests for scientists who want to study the issue further.
Kennedy reiterated that by September there will be some initial insights and further information will come within the next six months.
Carlson asked if the answers would “differ from status quo kind of thinking.”
“I think they will,” Kennedy said. He continued on to say that people “need to stop trusting the experts.”
“We were told at the beginning of COVID ‘don’t look at any data yourself, don’t do any investigation yourself, just trust the experts,”‘ he said.
In a democracy, Kennedy said, we have the “obligation” to “do our own research.”
“That’s the way it should be done,” Kennedy said.
He also reiterated that HHS will return to “gold standard science” and publish the results so everyone can review them.
Business
Elon Musk slams Trump’s ‘Big Beautiful Bill,’ calls for new political party

From LifeSiteNews
By Robert Jones
The Tesla CEO warned that Trump’s $5 trillion plan erases DOGE’s cost-cutting gains, while threatening to unseat lawmakers who vote for it.
Elon Musk has reignited his feud with President Donald Trump by denouncing his “Big Beautiful Bill” in a string of social media posts, warning that it would add $5 trillion to the national debt.
“I’m sorry, but I just can’t stand it anymore. This massive, outrageous, pork-filled Congressional spending bill is a disgusting abomination. Shame on those who voted for it: you know you did wrong. You know it,” Musk exclaimed in an X post last month.
I’m sorry, but I just can’t stand it anymore.
This massive, outrageous, pork-filled Congressional spending bill is a disgusting abomination.
Shame on those who voted for it: you know you did wrong. You know it.
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) June 3, 2025
Musk renewed his criticism Monday after weeks of public silence, shaming lawmakers who support it while vowing to unseat Republicans who vote for it.
“They’ll lose their primary next year if it is the last thing I do on this Earth,” he posted on X, while adding that they “should hang their heads in shame.”
Every member of Congress who campaigned on reducing government spending and then immediately voted for the biggest debt increase in history should hang their head in shame!
And they will lose their primary next year if it is the last thing I do on this Earth.
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) June 30, 2025
The Tesla and SpaceX CEO also threatened to publish images branding those lawmakers as “liars.”
Trump responded on Truth Social by accusing Musk of hypocrisy. “He may get more subsidy than any human being in history,” the president wrote. “Without subsidies, Elon would probably have to close up shop and head back home to South Africa… BIG MONEY TO BE SAVED!!!”
( @realDonaldTrump – Truth Social Post )
( Donald J. Trump – Jul 01, 2025, 12:44 AM ET )Elon Musk knew, long before he so strongly Endorsed me for President, that I was strongly against the EV Mandate. It is ridiculous, and was always a major part of my campaign. Electric cars… pic.twitter.com/VPadoTBoEt
— Donald J. Trump 🇺🇸 TRUTH POSTS (@TruthTrumpPosts) July 1, 2025
Musk responded by saying that even subsidies to his own companies should be cut.
Before and after the 2024 presidential election, Musk spoke out about government subsidies, including ones for electric vehicles, stating that Tesla would benefit if they were eliminated.
This latest exchange marks a new escalation in the long-running and often unpredictable relationship between the two figures. Musk contributed more than $250 million to Trump’s reelection campaign and was later appointed to lead the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), which oversaw the termination of more than 120,000 federal employees.
Musk has argued that Trump’s new bill wipes out DOGE’s savings and reveals a deeper structural problem. “We live in a one-party country – the PORKY PIG PARTY!!” he wrote, arguing that the legislation should be knows as the “DEBT SLAVERY bill” before calling for a new political party “that actually cares about the people.”
It is obvious with the insane spending of this bill, which increases the debt ceiling by a record FIVE TRILLION DOLLARS that we live in a one-party country – the PORKY PIG PARTY!!
Time for a new political party that actually cares about the people.
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) June 30, 2025
In June, Musk deleted several inflammatory posts about the president, including one claiming that Trump was implicated in the Jeffrey Epstein files. He later acknowledged some of his comments “went too far.” Trump, in response, said the apology was “very nice.”
With the bill still under Senate review, the dispute underscores growing pressure on Trump from fiscal hardliners and tech-aligned conservatives – some of whom helped deliver his return to power. Cracks in the coalition may spell longer term problems for the Make America Great Again movement.
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