MorningRecord is the staff byline of The Morning Record, publishing forensic analyses of public policy, media framing, and institutional claims using disclosed sources and methodology.
Indigenous Affairs
Dissecting the $76B Indigenous claims liability provision: why negotiations move slower than filings. This Record quantifies per-taxpayer exposure and pinpoints the procedural throughput limit driving the backlog.
Internal Trade
Isolating Canada’s internal trade framework: why regulatory authority fragments market access. This Record traces how provincial controls limit labour and goods mobility and quantifies the economic exposure created by persistent duplication.
Health Policy
Auditing the $1.5B federal pharmacare launch: why national coverage depends on provincial systems. This Record isolates delivery authority, timelines, and per-taxpayer exposure.
Public Safety
The $1.761B Federal Law Enforcement package: how Budget 2025’s National Anti-Fraud Strategy and Financial Crimes Agency are structured to change prevention and prosecution.
Pensions
Navigating the $600B Canada Pension Plan Investment Fund: a structural examination of asset growth versus contributor and retiree dynamics. This Record quantifies per-contributor exposure and isolates the demographic and market constraints shaping long-term benefit sustainability.
Canada
Deconstructing the $4.4B Housing Accelerator Fund: a structural examination of funding design versus unit delivery timelines. This Record quantifies taxpayer exposure and maps municipal approval throughput as the system constraint shaping housing completions.
Energy Policy
Mapping the $6B Clean Electricity Investment Tax Credit and its interaction with provincial grid timelines. This Record quantifies household tax exposure and isolates permitting, interconnection, and workforce constraints shaping electricity deployment.
Health Policy
Deconstructing the $13B Canada Dental Care Plan: a structural examination of eligibility expansion, fiscal exposure, and service delivery limits. This Record quantifies taxpayer cost by income group and maps provider participation timelines shaping access.
Transport
Unmasking the $2.9B EV Standard: A deep dive into taxpayer-funded incentives vs. rigid sales mandates. We calculate the exact tax hit per income bracket and map the charging rollout against federal targets, revealing the reality of the 20% fast-charging constraint.
National Defence
Unmasking the $73.9B Future Fighter Project: A forensic deep dive into hidden acquisition costs vs. true capability. We calculate the exact tax hit per income bracket and expose the high-stakes infrastructure and personnel timelines dictating the future of our air superiority.
National Defence
A forensic audit of the $81.8 billion National Defence funding trajectory outlined in Budget 2025. This report quantifies near-term capital growth, identifies the $460 million annual operating reduction beginning in 2026–27, and isolates readiness and personnel throughput constraints.
Housing
A forensic audit of Budget 2025’s $13B Build Canada Homes plan. It breaks down per-filer fiscal exposure, reconciles the $5.7B accrual-to-cash gap from loans and assets, and maps the federal housing spending path through 2029.