Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney spent nearly $160,000 on luxury airline food during a single week-long trip abroad, according to government records obtained by the Canadian Taxpayers Federation.
The jaw-dropping bill came from Carney’s November 2025 trip to Athens, Abu Dhabi, Johannesburg, and the Canary Islands — with a 55-person entourage in tow.
That works out to $2,850 per person for in-flight meals.
“Carney spent more money on airplane food during one trip than the average family will spend on groceries in almost a decade.”
The menu featured high-end dishes like Chilean sea bass, beef tenderloin, and chicken chasseur. But the real sticker shock came from individual line items: $90 for orange juice and $176 for a case of bottled water.
Franco Terrazzano, federal director of the Canadian Taxpayers Federation, tore into Carney’s spending in a press release.
“Carney keeps promising to spend less, but if he isn’t willing to cut back on airplane food, then what will he spend less on?” Terrazzano demanded.
He pointed to far more reasonable food bills from other Canadian officials traveling internationally and said Carney had no excuse for the lavish expenses.
“It’s possible for the prime minister to travel internationally without billing taxpayers six figures for airplane food, so we need Carney to make sure these types of bills never happen again,” Terrazzano added.
The November trip wasn’t an isolated incident. The Canadian Taxpayers Federation previously exposed Carney for spending almost $200,000 on catering for three international flights earlier in 2025 — including $94,000 for a single trip to Rome.
Carney’s first year as prime minister racked up nearly $1 million in airborne food costs alone.
Even that figure could be low — the Toronto Sun reported in June that totals provided by the Canadian defense department for meals aboard “CANFORCE One” didn’t match invoices and documents obtained by the media.
The spending spree came despite public promises from Carney to keep expenses lower than his predecessors. The Canadian government had previously pledged in writing to rein in excessive travel costs after withering public criticism.
The Toronto Sun summed it up bluntly: Carney has Canadian taxpayers “paying for caviar wishes on a meatloaf budget.”
