This is from a larger publication, Alternative federal budget 2026-27: Bridge to independence
Affordable housing and homelessness: Prioritize people over profits
Year after year, housing affordability remains a top concern for Canadians. Governments at all levels repeatedly promise to prioritize housing investments, yet progress is slow to come. To redirect federal efforts from corporate welfare to housing affordability, the AFB will give the new housing agency, Build Canada Homes, a clear mandate, immediately begin consultations on renewal of the NHS, and turn the Blueprint for a Renters’ Bill of Rights into strong legislation. The AFB will triple the federal government’s proposed $6 billion investment in new community and co-op housing to $18 billion, building one million new non-market and co-op housing units over the next decade, with 500,000 of these units set aside for rent-geared-to-income.
Agriculture: Cultivating food sovereignty
In Canada, the federal government has broken with longstanding values, targeting public services with austerity while funding militarization and the adoption of AI, and exempting large extractive projects from regulatory controls. These dynamics will have serious impacts on agriculture and food systems in Canada. For farmers, the cost of production will go up, environmental and market risks will intensify, and low commodity prices will be unlikely to improve. For consumers, high energy and housing costs will put even more pressure on household food budgets. The AFB will rebuild Canada’s agricultural research capacity by reversing the cuts announced in January 2026. The AFB’s new Cultivating Food Sovereignty suite of programs will increase Canada’s capacity to produce, process, store and distribute food for domestic consumption.
Artificial intelligence: Tech that works for the people
In contrast to the federal government’s “all in” approach to AI, the AFB takes a step back from the hype to lay out a more thoughtful and measured approach to the adoption of AI tools in Canada. The AFB will accelerate the development and ensure the swift passage of a new, modernized Artificial Intelligence and Data Act that will give the federal government the power to introduce public interest regulation of algorithmic systems in both the public and private sector. The act will employ the precautionary principle to prohibit the introduction of AI tools into high-risk settings, such as education, health care or the delivery of public services, unless there is clear evidence that they will not cause harm. The AFB will ensure existing legislation is brought up to date for the AI era, including privacy, copyright and labour laws, to ensure users, creators and workers are protected from AI systems. The AFB will require that all new data centres be powered with 100 per cent non-emitting electricity, and that at least 50 per cent of that power be provided through new renewable energy generation which data centre developers will pay for themselves. All data centres will be required to report to a public registry, which includes a detailed breakdown of energy use, water use, job creation and other local impacts. The AFB will require the federal government to gradually divest itself of commercial AI services, especially those owned by U.S. companies that put Canadians’ sensitive data at risk.
Arts and culture: Storytellers are needed now more than ever
In this era of change, uncertainty, disrupted trading relationships, and U.S. threats to make Canada the 51st state, Canada must have vibrant arts and culture, in every sector, and in every community. The AFB responds to the crisis in the arts and cultural industries by continuing to implement commitments the government has made, including amending the Copyright Act to provide a Resale Right. The AFB will continue to increase CBC/Radio Canada funding until it matches the average per capita investment that public broadcasters in other countries receive. In 2024, the government needed to increase CBC’s budget by $2 billion to reach that average. The AFB will increase the federal refundable tax credit for artistic expressions to 35 per cent. Eligibility for the credit will be extended to producers of all forms of artistic expressions and cultural works. The AFB will provide increased funding of $100 million annually to the Canadian Council for the Arts to, among other things, implement programs for Indigenous, Black, gender-diverse, and older artists, artists with disabilities, as well as artists from other marginalized and equity-deserving communities.
Child care: Canada can’t work without it
The AFB will provide significant annual increases in operational and capital funding to support provinces and territories to continue to expand the Canada-wide Early Learning and Child Care program. The AFB will work with the provinces and territories to develop, implement and be publicly accountable for achieving plans to increase and equitably distribute the supply of not-for-profit, public and Indigenous child care programs and to cap all parent fees at $10 a day, instead of the present federal goal of “an average of $10 a day.” The AFB will provide additional financial mechanisms to ensure that child care is affordable for lower-income families, with no fees for families living below the poverty line. It will also expand the size of the qualified child care workforce by increasing recruitment and retention rates, and by increasing the proportion of staff who have early childhood education post-secondary diplomas and degrees. The AFB will build on the federal government’s June 2026 investment and provide an additional $3.7 in operating funding and $4 billion in capital funding in 2028/29.
Climate change and environment: Getting Canada back on track
In recognition of the escalating climate crisis and of the widespread benefits that climate action offers, the AFB shakes Canada free of its fossil-fuel-induced malaise and dons the mantle of climate leadership in a global economy that is moving away from coal, oil and gas. The AFB will impose a moratorium on all new fossil fuel infrastructure, including oil sands expansions, offshore oil wells, liquified natural gas facilities, oil and gas pipelines and gas power plants. The AFB will reintroduce the federal consumer carbon pricing backstop at its previous schedule. The AFB will introduce climate and biodiversity conditions, also known as “green strings,” on all federal spending, including programs, tax policies, and procurement. The AFB will allocate $32 billion over five years toward a national clean electricity grid, including interprovincial transmission infrastructure and demand-side management programs to improve the efficiency of the grid. The AFB will allocate $65 billion over 10 years to expand and accelerate the implementation of the National Adaptation Strategy.
Defence: Refusing the arms race
The federal government must shift from politicized defence spending targets to an evidence-based approach, determining what level of expenditures are necessary to ensure the safety and security of Canadians. It should also recognize a wider definition of security that includes the value of investing in multilateral engagement, diplomacy, peace and stability, as well as measures to address the climate crisis. The AFB will move Canada’s defence budget allocation (set to reach $150 billion a year by 2035) away from an arbitrary percentage of GDP and, instead, determine funding based on the needs of legitimate territorial defence. The AFB will cancel Canada’s acquisition of the remaining 72 Lockheed Martin F-35 combat aircraft and reduce the proposed number of submarines to be acquired through the Canadian Patrol Submarine Project from 12 to four to more realistically reflect current Royal Canadian Navy staffing availability. The AFB will cap the NORAD modernization program and refuse any spending on the “Golden Dome” (U.S. President Donald Trump has stated Canada would need to pay US$61 billion to join the missile defence system).
Employment Insurance: It’s time for real reform
Federal policymakers first promised comprehensive EI reforms and modernization in 2016. So far, we have seen only piecemeal measures—temporary band-aid solutions fashioned on the fly and narrowly targeted to specific claimants. The AFB will undertake sweeping reforms to strengthen and modernize the Employment Insurance program. The AFB will allow EI benefits for up to 104 weeks for all workers while in approved training. The AFB will introduce a new program of EI Emergency Response Measures, providing an automatic, predictable response in the event of a recession, major climate events, pandemics and other disruptions. The AFB will set a fixed, Canada-wide 360-hour qualifying rule for an entry level EI claim for regular or special benefits (12 weeks if to the claimant’s advantage). The AFB will also extend the maximum EI regular benefit period to 50 weeks in all regions and permanently provide at least five additional weeks for eligible seasonal claimants. The AFB will increase the current EI benefit rate to 66.6 per cent from the current 55 per cent—a historical low and provide a floor on benefits of $500 a week.
First Nations: Rights holders and partners
Federal, provincial and territorial governments are fast-tracking infrastructure and resource development on First Nations territories using processes that specifically bypass or exclude them, circumventing their unique rights and interests. The Alternative Federal Budget outlines a strategic investment plan to transition First Nations from marginalized stakeholders to full economic partners by addressing deep systemic gaps through direct fiscal measures. To modernize governance and capacity, the AFB boosts Band Support Funding and provides permanent national funding for the Labour Market Initiative to help close employment and income gaps. The AFB funds Regional Education Agreements to cover the true costs of schooling, provides extensive capital for constructing and maintaining safe schools, and dedicates reliable funding to replace aging school bus fleets. For housing and infrastructure, the strategy doubles community infrastructure investments, protects on-reserve housing, and introduces an innovative infrastructure monetization program to address longstanding deficits. Finally, the AFB operationalizes the First Nations Procurement Authority to deliver a genuine, fraud-resistant certification system that enforces federal procurement targets, while funding a comprehensive constitutional review of natural resource agreements to secure true revenue-sharing and territorial rights.
Food security: A holistic national food strategy
At the household level, food insecurity affects nearly 10 million people, including 2.4 million children—among the highest recorded in 20 years of monitoring. Canada’s food security crisis stems from three interconnected problems: an income floor with multiple structural gaps; a food system that is built for export rather than domestic markets; and corporate over-concentration. The AFB will address these issues. The AFB will cut household food insecurity by 50 per cent and eliminate severe food insecurity by 2030. The AFB will invest in mechanisms that enhance food sovereignty and local food infrastructure because income alone cannot solve food insecurity when entire communities lack access to affordable, reliable and culturally appropriate food. It will prioritize Indigenous and Black food sovereignty, domestic procurement, regional infrastructure and a reformed Nutrition North. The AFB will mandate a “Buy Canadian, Buy Local” policy across the federal government’s institutional food service market, comprising hospitals, schools, correctional facilities and other public institutions. The AFB will invest $200 million over five years in the regional aggregation, processing and distribution infrastructure that connects producers to institutional and community markets. The AFB will pursue public interest regulation to address corporate concentration. Competition reforms can help improve food affordability and security by regulating anti-consumer practices such as mergers and consolidation, price fixing, price gouging, property controls in grocery retail, exclusivity arrangements and algorithmic pricing.
Gender equality: Investing in a gender-just future
Rising levels of economic insecurity and government neglect now threaten the advance of gender equality in Canada. The federal government’s narrow set of “nation-building” priorities are focused on re-creating a past Canadian economy by investing in male-dominated industries and the military. The AFB will prioritize a new Employment Equity Act, committing $20 million over the next three years for the speedy development of a new employment equity regime (including the creation of two new equity groups: Black people and 2SLGBTQI+ people). The AFB will also commit $7.5 million per year in additional funding to support an expanded mandate for the Workforce Alliance for the Care Economy. The AFB will increase base funding to WAGE’s women’s program to $150 million per year for multi-year funding for women’s rights and gender equality organizations working at the local, regional and national levels. This will include $10 million per year in operational funding for national women’s rights organizations working on systemic change.
Health care: Re-building a system in crisis
The first year of the Carney government saw little movement in supporting health care, despite most Canadians telling pollsters they believe the system is in crisis and that health care remains among their top issues of concern. The AFB has determined that Alberta’s two-tier health care law (known as Bill 11) violates the Canada Health Act. If the Alberta government moves forward with the law, transfers will be withheld in accordance with the Canada Health Act. The AFB will continue to build a national universal pharmacare program. The AFB will take profits out of nurse staffing by funding government-run or non-profit organizations to staff hard-to-recruit posts. The AFB will increase Canadian Dental Care Plan coverage, extending the principle of universality to dental care. A five billion dollars a year primary care infrastructure fund will be created to finally get ahead of wait times in health care. The AFB will create new supervised consumption sites and community-based outreach teams to deliver emergency overdose response and harm-reduction services. The AFB will continue the five per cent escalator in the Canada Health Transfer in 2028-29 and in perpetuity, and will ensure that, at a minimum, federal spending on health care keeps up with inflation.
Health equity: A well-being economy for all
Working towards health equity, where all people have fair access to opportunities to reach their full health potential demands a cross-government framework and approach. As a foundation for health equity, the AFB will re-orient the economy to ensure a just distribution of income, wealth, power and time. The aim is to significantly reduce income and wealth inequality, which negatively affects health at the population level and disproportionately harms certain populations. Towards intergenerational equity, and modelled on the Welsh experience, the AFB will create a new federal Quality of Life Act. As a foundation for health equity, the AFB will support efforts to ensure that the shape and purpose of the economy is determined by people’s active voices, is locally grounded, and elevates the voices of structurally marginalized and oppressed groups.
Immigration: Reversing the anti-migrant policy push
Over the past year, the federal government has moved from restriction to retrenchment: lowering immigration levels, shrinking temporary resident pathways, narrowing access to refugee protection, introducing new health-care costs for refugee claimants, and cutting the settlement infrastructure that helps newcomers live, work, study, reunite with family, and participate in Canadian society. The AFB will repeal the harmful refugee and immigration restrictions introduced through Bill C-12. The AFB will rescind the Canada-U.S. Safe Third Country Agreement, which denies equitable access to refugee protection and pushes people into unsafe crossings. Canada should restore full access to refugee claims at the Canada-U.S. border. The AFB will launch a comprehensive regularization program. It will create a one-step permanent residence pathway for all people without permanent status, including undocumented people, rejected claimants, temporary workers, students, caregivers, and others who have built lives, families, and communities in Canada. The AFB will restore and expand permanent resident pathways. The AFB will reverse settlement services funding cuts at IRCC and rebuild immigrant and refugee-serving infrastructure.
Incarceration: Building a decarceration strategy
Canada’s federal prison system is costly, ineffective, and misaligned with both the government’s mandate of operating a reintegrative prison system, as well as its current priorities of efficiency, and system modernization. The Alternative Federal Budget proposes a comprehensive roadmap to meaningfully and responsibly reduce incarceration by 30 per cent by 2035, by supporting decarceration while ensuring that the conditions of incarceration provide adequate mental and physical health care, and focus on rehabilitative and reintegrative services.
Industrial development: Domestic capacity, democratic inclusion
Without an industrial strategy grounded in the public interest, the country will remain vulnerable to external shocks and systemic tensions, leaving workers to bear the greatest costs. The AFB will create cohesive, resilient, and inclusive industrial development. The AFB will allocate $300 million per year to establish an Economic Sovereignty Secretariat. The AFB will invest $30 million per year to organize and maintain Sectoral Development Tables. While the current dialogue framework utilizes industry-led economic strategy tables to advise on commercial growth, the AFB’s tables are tasked with building a broad grassroots political consensus around national goals through a participatory democratic process with workers and communities across Canada. The AFB will dedicate $30 million per year to fund a comprehensive National Industrial Strategy. The strategy will articulate a clear national vision grounded in the public interest and empower the federal government to act as the primary coordinator of macroeconomic development. The AFB will create an Industrial Transition Benefit at $20 billion over 10 years to protect workers in transitioning industries or otherwise displaced by trade volatility. The AFB will implement a mandatory “Buy and Sell Canadian” procurement directive for all federally funded infrastructure projects.
Infrastructure, cities and transit:Green mobility and housing
Canada requires a new approach to transportation and infrastructure policy that treats public transit, passenger rail, intercity bus service, and sustainable urban development as critical, nation-building public infrastructure. Strategic federal investment in public transportation and sustainable land use can reduce emissions, improve affordability and mobility, and strengthen regional economic connectivity. The AFB proposes major new investments in public transit operations, intercity transportation, passenger rail, sustainable urban growth, and brownfield redevelopment to help build more connected, resilient, and economically sustainable communities across Canada. The AFB will reverse the cut to the Canada Public Transit Fund announced in the 2025 federal budget and significantly expand federal public transit funding, including permanent operating funding for transit agencies to address the growing transit fiscal crisis facing municipalities across Canada. The AFB will make annual investments to establish and maintain a national, publicly operated intercity bus network, operated through Via Rail and integrated with passenger rail service ($250 million a year). The AFB will boost the Rural Transit Solutions Fund by $50 million a year to improve access for smaller communities and reconnect communities abandoned by private carriers. The AFB will significantly expand federal investment in VIA Rail to improve the frequency, affordability, reliability, and connectivity of passenger rail service between communities across Canada, while supporting the procurement of Canadian-made electric trains and related manufacturing capacity. The AFB will tie federal infrastructure and housing funding to anti-sprawl, transit-oriented development, and long-term municipal fiscal sustainability requirements, efficient land use, and reduced infrastructure costs rather than focusing solely on short-term economic growth and development metrics.
International cooperation: Building alliances in a shifting world order
The AFB recognizes that international assistance is both a strategic and cost-effective investment in Canada’s long-term resilience, security, and global influence. It therefore proposes a significant expansion of the International Assistance Envelope, alongside policies to ensure Canada’s global engagement remains predictable, effective, and focused on reducing poverty and inequality. The AFB will reposition Canada as a credible and effective partner in international cooperation. The AFB will establish a legislated growth path for the International Assistance Envelope (IAE). It will reverse recent cuts and commit to sustained, year-on-year increases in the IAE, placing Canada on track to reach $15.5 billion annually, equivalent to 0.4 per cent of GNI by 2030. The AFB will establish a strengthened protected core for poverty-focused international assistance, at a minimum 75 per cent of the international assistance budget, on track to reach $11.6 billion annually by 2030-31. In a period of growing instability and fragmentation, international cooperation remains one of the most effective tools available to build shared prosperity, reduce global risk, and strengthen Canada’s role in the world. Retreating from these commitments would carry significant long-term costs. Sustained and principled engagement is therefore not only a moral imperative, but a strategic necessity.
Post-secondary education: Stabilizing and strengthening universities and colleges
Public funding for post-secondary education has failed to keep pace with rising costs, growing enrolment pressures and expanding institutional responsibilities. Institutions have increasingly relied on unregulated and exorbitant international student tuition to fill funding gaps, leaving the sector vulnerable when the federal government-imposed caps on international student permits. The result has been widespread financial instability across colleges and universities, contributing to over 14,000 layoffs since December 2025, hiring freezes and hundreds of program cuts that reduce educational choice and weaken the quality and comprehensiveness of education available to students and communities. The AFB will accelerate the outstanding 2024 federal budget tri-council funding commitments that are currently being phased in through 2030-31, bringing critical research investments forward to address immediate pressures facing institutions and researchers. The AFB will increase the maximum Canada Student Grant to $8,000 and make it permanent to provide predictable, long-term support for students and families. The AFB will work with provinces and territories to develop a coordinated national framework for post-secondary education grounded in the principle that all people in Canada should have access to fully public high-quality and comprehensive public education and training.
Poverty and income security: Meeting Canada’s poverty reduction strategy commitments
The government has four more years to implement the changes necessary to meet its promise to cut poverty reduction by 50 per cent by 2030. The AFB shows how to get there. The AFB will introduce an End Child Poverty supplement to the CCB (CCB-EndPov) targeted to children in deep poverty and expand eligibility to all children residing in Canada. The AFB will create a new Canada Liveable Income (CLI) benefit for working-age adults who do not have children, aren’t students and who do not have disabilities. The AFB will immediately increase the maximum Canada Disability Benefit amount to $9,000 a year and expand eligibility. The AFB will increase the maximum Guaranteed Income Supplement payment by 10 per cent for single seniors and couples. These amounts may have to increase further by 2030 as required to contribute to the 50 per cent reduction in poverty. The AFB will broaden eligibility to sponsored immigrant seniors living on low income regardless of the number of years of residency in Canada. The goal of the AFB is to leave no one behind.
Public service: Protecting services that benefit everyone
A strong public service is the backbone of any society that aspires to shared prosperity and high levels of human development. Today, the public service has not just been under strain after decades of neoliberal ‘new public management’, it is under active threat. The federal government’s plan to slash 40,000 federal public service positions from 2023-24 to 2028-29—about 10 per cent of the federal workforce—will weaken Canada’s social safety net and hurt workers, families and communities across Canada. The AFB will reverse the Comprehensive Expenditure Review cuts and the four-days-a-week return to office mandate. It will use the savings from the reduced need for office space to fund that renewal. The AFB will ensure that no major decisions are being made by generative AI within the federal government. When it comes to AI, or automation more generally, these systems must be co-created with workers and they must deliver full transparency about when and where AI is deployed.
Racial equity: Addressing systemic racism and hate
The AFB will create an Anti-Racism Act that will name and address all forms of systemic racism and hate. This will give a legislative foundation to an independent Anti-Racism Secretariat that reports directly to parliament and has its own budget. The AFB will create a National Action Plan with metrics to accompany the national Anti-Racism Strategy. The plan will have concrete strategies with actionable goals, measurable targets, timetables, and resource allocations for each strategy. It will be used to fund community-based efforts across Canada to address all forms of racism and hate. The AFB will include an intentional racial equity framework in the Gender-based Analysis Plus budget, federal poverty reduction efforts, the National Housing Strategy, and the Canada-wide Early Learning and Child Care Plan. The AFB will mandate intersectional data collection and include a clause on racial equity, with disaggregated data collection in health and the future funding transfers to provinces and territories. The AFB will attach employment equity measures (via community benefits agreements) to all federal investment and recovery programs to ensure racialized and other under-represented groups have equitable access to new jobs and economic opportunities created.
Regulation: Protecting and growing state capacity
Regulations implement laws to protect the public interest, but this system is undermined by the federal government’s deregulation efforts, corporate “regulatory capture,” and centralization of power. Under initiatives like the “Red Tape Review,” the government is accelerating major project approvals by bypassing individual environmental reviews and overriding habitat and species protections. Spending cuts from the Comprehensive Expenditure Review further threaten to weaken regulatory agencies by reducing essential enforcement staff and scientists. In contrast, the AFB prioritizes public safety over corporate profits. The AFB would boost spending to federal government regulatory bodies, and create a fund to strengthen public engagement in the regulatory process.
Seniors’ care and long-term care: A critical infrastructure component
The AFB understands seniors’ care as a critical infrastructure component, recognizing the human right to quality care and to quality care work. The AFB will transform housing and living options for seniors. This will be done through funding envelopes for publicly owned, publicly delivered and affordable housing options that integrate care services and provide smooth transitions as care needs change. The AFB will transform how seniors’ care is delivered by funding the development of standards for home care, social housing for seniors, assisted living and retirement homes. The AFB will make funding conditional on the demonstrated application of standards that apply to the entire range of services and to those who provide care. This means funding for long-term care, home care and seniors’ assisted living will be conditional on addressing working conditions for seniors’ care. The AFB will invest directly in expanding non-profit home care and facility-based long-term care to ensure that care can be provided to everyone who needs it, where it is needed most. It will also invest in funding options for seniors’ housing that can provide intermediate care, such as assisted living, retirement homes and co-operatives with the goal of expanding capacity by 100,000 beds over five years. The AFB will make any funding for long-term care, home care, and seniors’ assisted living conditional on phasing out the use of for-profit staffing agencies.
Taxation: Let’s tax wealth and corporate windfall profits
The tax system is an important tool to raise revenue, but also to structure markets so that wealth (and power) cannot concentrate indefinitely. The AFB makes significant changes to Canada’s tax system to fund the investments and programs in the rest of the budget while reducing the concentration of wealth and power. The AFB will create a new personal income tax bracket on income above $1,000,000 that would affect only 45,000 people, or 0.135 per cent of tax filers, deter outsized salaries, and raise $1.4 billion in 2027. The AFB will tax extreme wealth directly. Because of the failure to tax the gains of the ultra-wealthy, 1,685 families in Canada have an average of $448 million in wealth—4,041 times the average wealth of the bottom half of Canadian families. The top one per cent hold nearly $4 trillion in wealth, or almost a quarter of all household wealth in Canada. The AFB will tax large inheritances to prevent concentrated wealth from being passed down across generations. Canada is the only G7 country without a comprehensive inheritance tax—this is one reason why Canada’s richest families have remained so for generations. The AFB will implement a 50 per cent tax on total lifetime inheritances greater than $2.5 million. Only about 0.01 per cent of Canadians would be impacted by this tax annually and it could raise $1.1 billion in revenue. The AFB will tax the windfall profits of the oil and gas industry made because of U.S. and Iran war. The revenue would be used to end our dependence on volatile fossil fuels markets. The AFB will restore the federal corporate income tax rate to 20 per cent. The AFB would fully include capital gains in income while adjusting initial asset values for inflation so that only real changes in asset values are taxed. The AFB would eliminate fossil fuel subsidies, close tax loopholes and reverse cuts at the CRA.
Trade and investment: A bridge to greater independence
Canada needs to bridge a more independent foreign and international trade posture with a more hands-on economic strategy at home. The AFB diverges from both neoliberal free trade and deeper integration with the United States. The present “rupture” in the so-called international rules-based order that Prime Minister Mark Carney observed in his World Economic Forum speech presents Canada with an opportunity to fashion more flexible but realistic international relations prioritizing economic resiliency, poverty reduction, climate change abatement, and sustainable growth. The AFB will allocate $2 million toward the establishment of a trinational civil society advisory group to help Canada, Mexico and the United States develop worker- and climate-centred reforms for the Canada-U.S.-Mexico Agreement (CUSMA) benefiting all three countries. The AFB will direct Global Affairs Canada to remove investor-state dispute settlement (ISDS) from all existing Canadian trade and investment deals. The AFB will establish and fund an expanded labour-focused branch within Global Affairs Canada with an annual budget of $20 million. The branch will facilitate bottom-up monitoring and enforcement of treaty provisions—in Canada and in trading-partner countries—through state-to-state dispute settlement, similar to how the rapid-response labour mechanism functions in CUSMA.
Veterans: Ensuring no one is left behind
The AFB will launch an independent review to ensure that veterans, loved ones, caregivers, survivors and surviving family members receive the benefits, services and supports they need, when and where they need them. The inquiry will produce a public report with concrete, time-bound and measurable recommendations. The AFB will require Veterans Affairs Canada (VAC) to identify and register all eligible veterans proactively, rather than relying on them to come forward when seeking services. Better funding for homeless veterans, a rent supplement and better pension support are also AFB measures.
