Budget capital gains reform will boost investment
Collecting more revenue from the largest gains on sales of existing assets while offering greater incentives to create new assets is a smart economic strategy.
Public service unions sound alarm over feds’ plan to trim bureaucracy by 5,000 jobs through ‘natural attrition’
As the population grows, ‘you have to invest and grow the public service,’ said Public Service Alliance of Canada national president Chris Aylward.
Budget 2024 offers promising pledges for science, but falls short in a few ways
The bulk of the budget’s $1.8-billion planned for core research grants won’t flow for several years—making it very contingent on election outcomes.
‘Overtaxed and overburdened’: cannabis industry suffocating under regulatory regime as feds take puff past excise relief in budget
Cannabis Council of Canada’s Paul McCarthy says he’s ‘bewildered’ at the feds’ lack of action despite growing calls from industry, experts, and a House committee.
How green was this budget?
Being better on climate policy than the Official Opposition is too low a bar for a confidence vote.
Freeland’s budget seen as last hope to turn Trudeau’s electoral fortunes around, say politicos
A key metric to gauge the budget’s effectiveness will be whether it reverses Canadians’ appetite for change in government, says David Coletto, CEO of Abacus Data.
Budget 2024 provides key themes for advocacy strategies in advance of anticipated election budget, says lobbyists
Stakeholders unfulfilled by this year’s budget are ‘never going to get a more receptive time with an opposition [party], especially a potential government in waiting, than right now,’ says Cam Holmstrom of Niipaawi Strategies.
Conservatives ‘riding the stronger horse’ in competing narratives about budget: pollster Lyle
The Liberals made it ‘eminently clear’ the change to capital gains tax ‘is a fight that they want,’ says former Liberal staffer Carlene Variyan. But so far the Tories have ‘batted it down pretty well,’ says former Conservative staffer Laura Kurkimaki.
Time for some Liberal soul searching
The Liberals are getting to a place where they need to decide if they are going to stumble into an election walloping, or do something about it.
Budget projects savings through ‘natural attrition’ of public service jobs
The 5,000 public servants projected to leave in the next four years are expected to make up the bulk of previously announced savings targets.
