Carney set to announce new affordability measures, including boost to GST credit, before heading to Toronto to meet with Ford – iPolitics
January 26th, 2026
What’s happening on (and off) Parliament Hill, plus the news you need to start your day.
As flagged by iPolitics’ own Marco Vigliotti last night, Prime Minister Mark Carney is poised to kick off the new sitting by unveiling what his office is billing as “new measures to make life more affordable for Canadians” — including, as iPolitics reports, “expansions to the GST credit that would help some 12 million Canadians,” as per caucus and government sources. (9:30 a.m.)
In what the Toronto Star frames as a bid to “reset his domestic agenda,” Carney is expected to reveal plans for an across-the-board boost to the quarterly payments, which “will increase in July by 25 per cent over the next five years, providing approximately an additional $130 for a low-income single person and $270 for a couple with two kids for the 2026-2027 benefit year,” the paper notes.
