Too many rules? Carney orders review of all government regulations

Raffy Boudjikanian · CBC News

· Posted: Jul 09, 2025 9:00 AM EDT | Last Updated: 2 hours ago

Prime Minister Mark Carney is enacting a cross-departmental reappraisal of each regulations starting Wednesday, a measurement helium promised during the national predetermination campaign.

"Regulations play a cardinal relation successful protecting the wellness and information of Canadians—but to enactment effective, they indispensable beryllium regularly reviewed," said Shafqat Ali, president of the Treasury Board, successful a connection by his section accompanying the announcement.

"Cutting unnecessary reddish portion is indispensable to unlocking Canada's afloat economical potential."

Carney said successful the connection his authorities has a mandate to "spend little and put more," adding "it's clip to marque authorities much efficient, marque its processes much effective, and to catalyze much backstage superior truthful we tin physique the strongest system successful the G7."

Wednesday's announcement said Ali has asked each curate to reappraisal regulations and "propose actions and measures to destruct reddish tape."

It said organizations would person 60 days to undertake their reviews and study connected advancement to Ali, and the process would beryllium overseen by a recently created Red Tape Reduction Office.

The Liberal Party's level said it would "require each applicable national departments — specified arsenic Transport Canada, Natural Resources Canada and Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada — to undertake reappraisal and study connected progress, wrong 60 days, connected steps to destruct outdated oregon unnecessary rules, trim duplication oregon overlap with provincial rules and streamline the medication of rules and the transportation of regulatory decisions." 

Both during his tally for Liberal person and during the election campaign, Carney said the national authorities needs to rein successful spending.

Carney said helium would abstracted "operational spending," the day-to-day moving of authorities programs and departments, from "capital spending" — thing that builds government-held assets.

The level besides pledged to chopped the maturation of authorities spending from 9 per cent to 2 per cent by eliminating discarded and duplication, and utilizing exertion to equilibrium operational spending wrong 3 years.

On Monday, Finance Minister François-Philippe Champagne sent letters to his chap furniture members asking them to travel up with "ambitious savings proposals." Champagne volition lead what's being called a "comprehensive expenditure review," with the extremity of getting a grip connected nationalist assemblage spending.

During the campaign, Carney came nether disapproval by the NDP, which accused him of readying cuts to the nationalist service, specifically to wellness care, successful bid to equilibrium the books. The Liberals pushed backmost connected that allegation.

The Treasury Board's announcement did not see immoderate fiscal targets, but said each national regulator must publically study connected its advancement and priorities astatine the extremity of the 60-day term.

The board also cited the Canadian Federation of Independent Business, which recovered businesses collectively paid an estimated $51.5 cardinal past twelvemonth owed to regulations from each 3 levels of government, with "approximately $17.9 cardinal attributed to reddish tape."