Budget 2021

MPs and the non-profit Canadians for Tax Fairness are calling for the Canadian government to take action after the Pandora Papers investigation found hundreds of world leaders and public officials have used offshore tax havens to hide enormous fortunes.

What’s missing from the federal government's plan to lower greenhouse gas emissions is an overarching strategy that would position Canada for success and chart a course toward net-zero emissions by 2050, writes Goldy Hyder, president and CEO of the Business Council of Canada.

Budget 2021 leaves billions of subsidies to fossil fuels and the construction of Trans Mountain as a publicly owned pipeline, plus approvals for new exploration for oil and gas, in place, writes MP and former Green Party leader Elizabeth May.

Many of the common hurdles for large-scale carbon capture and storage can be addressed when projects share knowledge and do not start from ground zero in their development, writes Beth (Hardy) Valiaho of International CCS Knowledge Centre.

The new federal budget’s focus on clean industry is the right one, write Clean Energy Canada's Sarah Petrevan and Mark Zacharias.

If the federal government wants to pursue bold climate plans, they can’t do it without cities, and cities can’t do it without more power and fiscal capacity, writes columnist Andrea Reimer.

The 2021 B.C. budget tabled this week allocates millions for food and agriculture. Here's what you need to know.

A major expansion of child care would open up economic opportunities for more parents, especially mothers, who often stay home to care for children because of the high cost and limited availability of existing options. But it will take more work to make the federal budget 2021 promise a reality.

Chrystia Freeland's first budget ends the fight against COVID — and begins a new one against climate change, writes columnist Max Fawcett.

The federal budget’s plan to retrofit residential buildings falls short of what is needed to reduce Canada’s greenhouse gas emissions and create well-paying jobs, experts say.

Fields, vineyards, orchards, and ranches could soon see their greenhouse gas emissions plummet thanks to unprecedented support from the federal government in Monday's Budget 2021.

Industry is excited about the budget's carbon-capture investments. But the technology is still expensive, and projects have not performed to expectations. Environmentalists worry it will lock us in to fossil fuels. Will Trudeau's wager pay off?

Budget 2021's significant investment in the protection of Pacific salmon and the development of a federal strategy are desperately needed, say conservation groups.

The 2021 federal budget represented a pivot towards a national industrial strategy for achieving emissions reductions, said Sahir Khan, co-founder and executive vice-president at the University of Ottawa's Institute of Fiscal Studies and Democracy.

This was the largest public health and economic crisis since the Second World War, and it has clearly illustrated how our health and social safety nets are lacking, writes David Macdonald, senior economist with the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives.