Liberals live up to dental care promise and other key areas of NDP deal; NDP will support budget
The NDP will support the Liberal budget after Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland delivered on the specific promises outlined in the confidence-and-supply agreement, including dental care. In crafting a pact with the NDP, the Liberals made specific promises to ensure the House of Commons’ fourth party would help them see their […]
Feds pledge to add more than $8-billion for defence, announce review of defence policy in new budget
With an eye to Russia’s renewed invasion of Ukraine, the federal government is proposing adding more than $8-billion to the military budget and to conduct a review of its defence policy in its budget tabled on April 7. With foreign policy taking a backseat for the government as it has dealt with the COVID-19 pandemic […]
Tax credit for carbon capture the wrong horse to back in a race against time
Scarcely a year into my first job with now defunct Britoil in 1986, I lost my job like many others as oil prices crashed. Young and optimistic, I went to Africa and applied my skills to building a dam. Eventually, I returned to the oil and gas sector, building a 30-year career, half of those […]
Guesswork, hopes, and risks: budget-making in the post-COVID haze
OTTAWA—Subject to election cycles, political trends, and economic shifts, budgets can range from the historic to pre-election giveaways to do-nothing holding patterns. But the budget to be delivered Thursday by Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland, coming after two years of a norm-destroying pandemic and in the midst of the worst foreign conflict in decades, will be […]
Politics This Morning: Guilbeault taking questions on climate plan, new IPCC report
Good Monday morning, There are three more days to go until Finance Minister CHRYSTIA FREELAND tables Budget 2022. Expect the usual jockeying to shape the conversation before and after it is released. The House of Commons is sitting today and the rest of this week, before taking a two-week break. The Senate is not sitting […]
Let’s bring some nuance to discussing the federal budget
It’s budget week. Finance Minister and Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland will drop this year’s budget on Thursday, April 7 at 4 p.m. in the House, and politicians are likely already practiscing their reactions. Get your budget bingo cards ready. As long as all goes as planned on pharmacare and dental care commitments, there’s a […]
Broadbent says NDP ‘should be worried’ Liberals won’t live up to commitments in upcoming budget, must keep pressure on
In the ramp-up to the upcoming federal budget, the New Democrats have found themselves with more elbow room at the negotiating table this year, thanks to their recent confidence and supply agreement with the governing Liberals. While some of the content of that agreement is expected to emerge by way of tangible commitments in the […]
Time is right for health-care advocates looking to make an impact on budget 2022, say lobbyists
The supply and confidence agreement struck last week between the Liberals and the NDP has opened the door for advocacy related to health care and long-term projects in advance of the 2022 federal budget, according to some government relations consultants. “I would say for the medical sector, this is going to be your budget. If […]
Boissonnault, Freeland among top lobbying targets in February as budget looms
In the weeks before Canada announced it would end pre-arrival COVID-19 testing for vaccinated travellers, tourism industry groups were clamouring to meet with Tourism Minister Randy Boissonnault, but one of the most active groups says the budget will be the best test of whether the struggling industry will get the support it needs. Airlines and […]
Feds ask Parliamentarians to approve $190.3-billion of $397.6-billion main spending estimates so far for 2022-2023
The government is asking Parliamentarians to approve $190.3-billion out of a total $397.6-billion in spending for the 2022-23 fiscal year, a nearly $50-billion jump over last year’s main spending estimates. In the last Parliament, the main estimates presented $142-billion requiring parliamentary approval. The 2021-22 main estimates kicked off with a total $342.2-billion, but following additional […]
