FIRST TAKE: What Does Budget 2025 Mean For The Manufacturing Industry?

FIRST TAKE: What Does Budget 2025 Mean For The Manufacturing Industry?

The long-anticipated first budget from Prime Minister Mark Carney’s Liberal government was tabled yesterday, with finance minister François-Philippe Champagne promising “generational investment.” Early reviews seem tentative, with a mix of praise and trepidation coming from both sides of the aisle. Some laud the shift in focus towards investment and competitiveness on a global scale, while others are waiting to judge the government’s execution t…

Taxpayers Federation slams Budget 2025 for soaring deficit, rising debt, and expanded carbon tax

The Canadian Taxpayers Federation (CTF) is accusing Prime Minister Mark Carney’s government of driving Canada deeper into debt, calling Budget 2025 a reckless plan that increases borrowing, expands government spending, and imposes a heavier financial burden on taxpayers.

Carney’s budget is a manifesto of ‘no’

There’s a clear implied bargain with the public: we are choosing this amount of pain, because we think these other things will save us

Federal budget highlights: Mark Carney’s first budget, by the numbers

The federal government’s new budget devotes tens of billions of dollars in new spending to national defence, infrastructure and more.

Carney’s debut budget misses the mark

Far from being a transformational fiscal plan, the same old Ottawa consensus endures

Budget 2025: Saskatchewan impacts: Industrial carbon tax is back on the menu, tax credits for nuclear

Mark Carney’s first budget as prime minister had a few concessions for the energy sector, but still insists on an industrial carbon tax for many years to come.