Mark Carney Promises Massive 60% Budget Increase For CSIS

Nov. 6, 2026

The new federal budget pledges $6 billion over 10 years for Canada’s spy agency.

Mark Carney’s Liberal government has promised to give Canada’s spy agency a massive funding increase of around 60 per cent in this year’s federal budget, which was tabled in Ottawa yesterday.

Details about how the money will be spent, however, remain murky.

The budget pledges $6 billion over 10 years starting in 2027/28 to the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) and $579.5 million in ongoing funding for CSIS to “expand its presence and capabilities.” The spy agency’s current budget sits at around $980 million per year.

This year’s federal budget states that the new injection of funds “would help CSIS engage with Canadians in their communities; better protect Canadians from terrorism, foreign interference, espionage, and other evolving threats; and reduce reliance on foreign partners.”

“It would also help CSIS deepen and diversify security relationships around the world.”

The budget provides no further details about how CSIS will use the new funding.

The Liberal government is also committed to major spending increases for the military and has pledged new funding for federal law enforcement agencies.

The budget proposes $451.3 billion in core military spending over the next five years, plus an additional $320 billion in “defence and security related funding.” This includes hiring “an additional 1,000 RCMP personnel and 1,000 new Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) officers.”

The budget also includes $4 million over five years for the CBSA “to continue to support the timely identification and removal of individuals who are inadmissible to Canada.”

The Liberal government projects that total military spending will surpass 4 per cent of national GDP by 2028, shy of NATO’s 5 per cent target that was demanded by U.S. President Donald Trump last year.

The core military budget includes $7.6 billion over five years to expand Operation Reassurance, a NATO mission based in Latvia. There is no word, however, on the Liberal government’s ongoing review of plans to purchase a full fleet of 88 American-made F-35 fighter jets.

In October, Defence Minister David McGuinty announced a $4 billion investment to support “capabilities” at Cold Lake, Alta. for the 16 jets that Canada has already committed to purchasing.

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The Liberal government has committed to purchasing 16 F-35 fighter jets made by American arms company Lockheed Martin.

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The new funding for CSIS, the RCMP and CBSA was welcomed by the Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs (CIJA), a pro-Israel lobby group.

In a statement posted on X, CIJA said: “extremist movements are exploiting libels about Jews and Israelis – from COVID to Gaza – to fuel radicalization, incite violence and commit acts of terror against Canadians.”

The pro-Israel group added that it “stands ready to work with the federal government to turn these investments into concrete action that protects communities and safeguards the security and fundamental freedoms of all Canadians.”

According to filings with the federal lobbyist registry, CIJA communicated with Public Safety Minister Gary Anandasangaree in September to call for:

“a ministerial directive to the RCMP and CSIS to prioritize and intensify monitoring, intelligence collection, investigations, disruption, and enforcement against antisemitic and Islamist violent extremism, as well as against foreign actors seeking to sponsor or exploit protests in Canada.”

CIJA has characterized numerous Canadian pro-Palestine protests, which denounce Israel’s ongoing genocide in Gaza, as antisemitic.

CIJA also communicated with regional advisors with the Prime Minister’s Office to call for “a comprehensive, accountable approach to combating hate and promoting inclusion by strengthening legal tools, enforcement capacity, and public institutions.”

As previously reported by The Maple, CIJA also communicated with Anandasangaree, CSIS director Dan Rogers and Conservative MP Shuvaloy Majumdar between March and July to call on the federal government to expand the grounds by which Canadian citizenship can be revoked, among other immigration-related measures.

[Top photo: Screenshot of CPAC video via YouTube.]