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Three big ideas for Canada’s federal fiscal update
Parental leave and health care should be a priority, while implementing a windfall tax on oil profiteers of the war on Iran
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The oil industry is making billions from the Iran war—it should be taxed
The current windfall could be Canadian oil’s final boom—so the proceeds must be reinvested into economic diversification and industrial planning
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Cruel and unnecessary punishment: Asylum seekers will foot half of department’s cost-cutting blitz
The IRCC wants asylum-seekers to pay for half of that department’s spending cuts by cutting dental and prescription coverage.
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Bill C-15 would allow corporations to be exempt from most Canadian laws
Buried on page 300 of the government’s omnibus budget implementation bill is an extremely troubling clause regarding corporate power in Canada—one that allows all cabinet…
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2025 was Canada’s year of Mark Carney: What have we learned about his economic policy agenda?
A year ago, Mark Carney was just a glimmer in the eye of a Liberal party that was inevitably headed for a horrendous defeat at…
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David Macdonald speaks to Senate about Bill C-15
On December 2, CCPA Senior Economist David Macdonald was invited to speak to the Standing Senate Committee on National Finance about Bill C-15, the first…
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Talking ‘bout my generational investment: Why the federal budget fails to meet the moment
Budget 2025 featured talk of “generational investments” and proclaimed a headline number of $1 trillion in combined new public and private investment over five years.…
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Manitoba is worse off thanks to the new federal budget
The budget tabled by the federal government on November 4 sets out a path that will worsen income inequality in Manitoba and squeezes the provincial…
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The path to prosperity set out in budget 2025 leaves millions behind
The millions struggling to pay their rent and put food on the table were looking for relief in budget 2025—and they were disappointed.
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Will the feds’ climate climb down placate petro-province premiers?
Perhaps lost in yesterday’s federal budget news dominated by job cuts and military spending is the extent to which the federal government is also abandoning…
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2025 federal budget analysis roundup
This page exists to bring together progressive policy organizations’ responses to the 2025 federal budget. Keep an eye on this page, as it will continue…
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Post-election budget could plunge Canada into another federal election
With so much on the line, the newly elected federal government has tabled a budget that, in many ways, could pass as a Conservative budget.
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