Bill Morneau

The Trudeau government is proposing to help subsidize the cost of buying an electric car by up to $5,000, but has declined to establish a more stringent sales mandate, opting instead for voluntary targets.

Canada’s federal government plans to spend $4.5 billion over five years to improve the living conditions of Indigenous communities and advance self-determination and self-governance, as Justin Trudeau’s Liberal government seeks to renew its claim as an honest broker and trusted partner in reconciliation efforts.

The Trudeau government needs to serve up more for fossil fuel industry workers who face an uncertain future if it wants to avoid a “major blowback,” says the co-chair of a federal advisory panel on the issue.

The budget, the Liberal government’s last before an October election in which such efforts are expected to feature, would allocate $19.4 million over four years to launch and run a Digital Democracy Project to “support research and policy development on online disinformation in the Canadian context.”

The federal government plans to spend more than a billion dollars over five years to strengthen Canada’s border and speed up the processing of asylum claims and removal of failed applicants, its 2019 budget shows, as immigration heats up as an election issue.

The Trudeau government is proposing to eliminate the federal agency in charge of traveller, baggage and worker security screening at airports. Buried in Finance Minister Bill Morneau's 460-page budget that was delivered Tuesday is a clause noting that the government is "transitioning the Canadian Air Transport Security Authority (CATSA) to an independent, not-for-profit entity." 

Speaking to reporters in Toronto Thursday, Finance Minister Bill Morneau responded a day after former justice minister and attorney general, Jody Wilson-Raybould, gave a damning testimony in front of the House of Commons justice committee, which implicated Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, Morneau, and their respective staff,

Canada's parliamentary watchdog has made some changes to its recent report on the Trans Mountain pipeline and expansion project, rejecting previous criticism of its research by Finance Minister Bill Morneau.

Myths die hard. For example, a third of Canadian adults say they still believe in Santa Claus. It’s harder to justify the three Big Lies surrounding the alleged Canadian oil discount — they serve the interests of Big Oil, the most powerful industry on earth

The Canadian Crown corporation that controls the Trans Mountain oil pipeline booked over $20 million in interest expenses in a single month.

"We’re striking the right balance," the Alberta premier said Thursday, after the announcement at a meeting of the Canadian Association of Oilwell Drilling Contractors at the Petroleum Club in Calgary.

Next year's federal election campaign will likely be the nastiest one yet, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said on Tuesday, October 2, 2018.

The federal government plans to make a decision on safeguards against steel dumping in the coming weeks, Economic Development Minister Navdeep Bains said on Friday, September 7, 2018.

The early cash-out of millions of dollars in stock options is being offered on top of about $3.9 million in bonuses offered to three of the top executives from Kinder Morgan Canada, the company said in a proxy document submitted to the U.S. securities regulator.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has expanded his cabinet by five, adding some new positions, and shifting some responsibilities among the senior ministers in his government, as Canada enters the last year before the next general election.