Feds give CBC a budget boost
Fasten your seatbelts. Canada is in for a long election run.
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.
Business investment key to addressing Canada’s productivity crisis
Governments across Canada can enact policies to help stimulate business investment, productivity gains, and stronger economic growth.
Liberals continue ‘big budget’ spending trend, increasing capital gains tax to maintain deficit
The government could be overestimating its projected new revenues from tax policy changes, says one finance expert.
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.
Defence over diplomacy spotlighted in Liberal budget, with modest initial spending on foreign service reform
The government’s spending plan will add $664.4-million exclusively to GAC, while billions more have been allocated for the Canadian Forces over the next 20 years.
Equity loan guarantees will pave path to economic reconciliation
Dismantling the barriers that have historically impeded Indigenous access to capital allows us to participate fully and fairly in the economy.
The federal carbon-pricing plan’s broken promise to small business
Almost none of the billions of dollars collected in carbon tax revenues have found their way back to SMEs since 2019, leaving them disillusioned and struggling to keep up with the rising cost of doing business.
