Can Carney ensure Canada is a true innovation nation?
Canada’s poor performance on innovation is apparent in the World Intellectual Property Organization’s 2025 Global Innovation Report which ranks our nation in 17th spot, compared to 14th a year earlier.
A note about protecting Indigenous Peoples in the 2025 budget
In the budget discussions, it might be worth remembering that reconciliation means fixing systems that are broken. This includes wildly huge administrative budgets.
Senate exempt from Carney’s spending review, but opts to launch own program audit
‘It seems there’s a new government in place that wants to be fiscally more responsible,’ says Conservative Senate Leader Leo Housakos, and the Red Chamber ‘can help them achieve those goals.’
MP Genuis pitches youth jobs plan
Conservative MP Garnett Genuis held a press conference on Parliament Hill on Oct. 15 to pitch a “youth jobs plan” ahead of the Nov. 4 budget. The Hill Times
It’s always do or die on budget day
Budgets have always tended to be historical markers that stood as a defining or make-or-break moment for federal governments.
Liberal government’s decision to deliver all future budgets in the fall is significant
This one-off is much more than it appears to be. Along with finalizing the fall date on a permanent basis, the government is also restructuring how it determines spending.
Federal funding out of touch with Indigenous realities
What is worth an increase in the era of savings? Indigenous investments must include an urban strategy.
The price tag on housing-enabling infrastructure is prolonging our housing crisis
The cost of infrastructure expansion is typically covered through development charges paid by developers when they build new housing, which exacerbates Canada’s significant affordability crisis.
Will the fall budget cycle be the spark MPs need to actually study spending?
No, most MPs aren’t forensic accountants, but that’s not the role they’re fulfilling when looking at financial plans—they’re supposed to be parsing them with a people-focused lens, and asking whether the spending works for the people who put them in office.
Africa is rising, and a generational budget is on the table. Canada must deliver
Canada must now decide what kind of global leader it will be. With the right amount of emphasis on the African continent, the fall budget will mark that legacy.
