Fall budget cycle ‘great news’ for ‘more timely’ northern project planning, says N.W.T. finance minister
‘By the time we’re actually seeing money coming through, our own estimates of our projects are sometimes six months to a year old,’ says Northwest Territories Finance Minister Caroline Wawzonek.
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.
The battery that can supercharge Canada’s economic future
Energy storage already ticks every box for national interest: job creation, economic security, emissions reductions, and grid resilience. But so far, it has been left off the priority list. That needs to change.
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.
‘It’s a new lens’: Champagne unveils new budget framework that splits operating from capital spending
The finance minister also committed to a new fiscal cycle, with a fall budget as the new timeline going forward, and spring economic and fiscal update.
Current fiscal outlook has not put us on a precipice yet, but a rush to balance the budget is not the answer
Canada faces enormous challenges and disruptive change in transitioning to an economy that can thrive in a world of sweeping change in technologies, markets and sustainability. Responding to these challenges has to be the focus of the next budget.
Senate changes language-study trip rules, cancels perk permitting spouses to claim classes
Senators also agreed to review the ‘co-ordinated travel’ policy to potentially bring in new rules after recent ‘familiarization’ tours to provinces during peak tourism season drew media attention.
