Budget’s lack of clarity over sunsetting climate programs a concern: Green Budget Coalition

The Liberals have recently been ‘walking back’ past commitments on ‘fighting climate change and reducing greenhouse gas emissions,’ says former parliamentary budget officer Yves Giroux.
Canada’s fiscal pivot: Budget 2025 marks a capital reset

The real change is architectural. It’s less about trimming fat than resetting the bones of fiscal management, turning Budget 2025 from a spending list into a structural blueprint.
It’s time for Canada to take control of stablecoins

Like any critical financial sector infrastructure, these digital tokens need a regulatory framework that balances innovation and consumer protection and financial stability.
No ‘serious negotiation’ with Liberals on budget, says Bloc MP Garon: ‘If the result is an election, what can we do?’

The party released six non-negotiable conditions for their support of the budget in October, but finance critic Jean-Denis says meetings with the Liberals were ‘mostly media stunts.’
Public service job cuts will be ‘compassionate’ and ‘civilized,’ with the impact on people ‘fairly minimal,’ say local Liberal MPs

Unions representing federal public servants are urging members to talk to their MPs about the impact of the thousands of job losses laid out in the Nov. 4 budget.
‘A big, big if’: ex-PBO questions Carney’s deficit projections as Liberal spending track keeps being ‘revised upwards’

‘We keep shifting the goalposts as we miss the goalpost,’ says Yves Giroux of the Liberal government’s fiscal anchors that seem to move based on ‘where the wind was blowing.’
Budget 2025 and the perfection of managerial politics

Mark Carney’s first budget displays the prime minister’s administrative instincts: control the narrative, project calm, and preserve credibility in bond markets.
Winners and losers you might have missed in the federal budget

Prime Minister Mark Carney plans to run a deficit in the tens of billions of dollars for years to come, but despite his warning against coming sacrifices, they were few and far between in the Nov. 4 document.
Is now the winter of our economic discontent?

It is quite evident that we are barrelling towards economic gloom, and creating a society of haves and have nots.
Carney Liberals table long-awaited budget

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