2025 Federal Budget

Highlights

An investment and deficit budget

• Projected deficit of $78.3B
• Projected GDP growth: 1.1% for 2025, 1.2% for 2026
• $115.2B over the next five years in infrastructure
• Reduction of more than 10% of the public service workforce by 2028-2029

Taxation and public service

Reducing the size of government and artificial intelligence (AI)

Workforce renewal

• Reduce positions estimated at 16,000 full-time equivalents. These reductions will affect 650 management positions. This reduction will support a trajectory toward a more sustainable public service of approximately 330,000 employees by 2028-2029 — a decrease of roughly 40,000 employees compared to 2023-2024.
• Amend the Public Service Superannuation Act and the Income Tax Regulations.
• Provide Public Services and Procurement Canada with $15M over two years to allow the Government of Canada Pension Centre to manage these changes.

Adopting AI to boost productivity and improve services

• Establish a Digital Transformation Office to lead the deployment of technology solutions across the federal government.
• Develop a made-in-Canada AI tool that can be deployed across the federal government.

Equity in public sector retirement benefits

• Consult on enhancements to the Canada Pension Plan (CPP) and the Quebec Pension Plan (QPP) and ensure federal employees continue to receive equivalent retirement benefits.
• Consult stakeholders on amending the number of years of service required to be eligible for the pension plan upon retirement, from two to six years.

Conducting collective bargaining in good faith

• Amend the Federal Public Sector Labour Relations Act.

Strengthening the integrity of student financial aid

• Propose legislative and regulatory changes to address integrity issues related to private educational institutions.

Improving access to funds deposited by cheque

• Amend the Bank Act to increase from $100 to $150 the first tranche of funds deposited by cheque that is immediately available, and eliminate the difference between hold periods for funds deposited in person and those deposited by other means.
• Implement a regulation to reduce the number of days a bank may hold cheque-deposited funds before releasing them to customers.

Protecting the public from financial exploitation

• Introduce a Financial Exploitation Prevention Code of Conduct that federally regulated banks could adopt on a voluntary basis.

Protecting workers from misclassification

• $77M over four years to implement a program to address non-compliance related to personal services businesses and lift the moratorium on reporting service fees in the trucking industry.
• Amend the Income Tax Act and the Excise Tax Act to allow the CRA to share information with Employment and Social Development Canada to combat worker misclassification.

Helping young people find and keep jobs

• $594.7M over two years for the Canada Summer Jobs program to support approximately 100,000 summer jobs in summer 2026.
• $307.9M over two years to the Youth Employment and Skills Strategy (a horizontal strategy).
• $635.2M over three years for the Student Work Placement Program to support approximately 55,000 work-integrated learning opportunities in 2026-2027 for post-secondary students.

Facilitating access to the Canada Disability Benefit

• $115.7M over four years to provide an additional one-time payment of $150 under the Canada Disability Benefit for each application or renewal of a certificate for the Disability Tax Credit that establishes eligibility for the Canada Disability Benefit.
• Find ways to make a similar payment for other required certificates for the Disability Tax Credit.
• Legislate that the Canada Disability Benefit be excluded from income calculations under the Income Tax Act.

Improving the efficiency of the tax system

• Eliminate the underused housing tax and the luxury tax on aircraft and vessels, deemed inefficient.

Economy, innovation and business support

Major projects and financial efficiency

Increasing funding for major projects

• $213.8M over five years to the Major Projects Office. This funding will also support the Indigenous Advisory Council. Of this amount, $19.8M will come from existing departmental resources.
• Amend the Canada Infrastructure Bank Act to increase its statutory capital envelope from $35B to $45B. The government will allow the Canada Infrastructure Bank to make investments in projects of national interest submitted to the Major Projects Office, regardless of sector or asset class, as long as they fall within the Bank’s statutory mandate.

Enhancing tax incentives for scientific research and experimental development

• Further raise the annual eligible expenditure limit for the enhanced credit under the Scientific Research and Experimental Development (SR&ED) program, increasing it from $4.5M to $6M for taxation years beginning on or after December 16, 2024.
• Improve predictability and simplify program administration for SR&ED by introducing an optional pre-approval process so companies can obtain initial technical approval for eligible SR&ED projects before starting work or incurring expenses.
• Make greater use of AI in program administration.
• Simplify the review process by eliminating unnecessary steps and reducing the complexity of required information to accelerate a final decision on applications.

Fully leveraging AI

• $925.6M over five years to support large-scale public AI computing infrastructure.
• Identify new promising AI infrastructure projects and enter into memoranda of understanding for these projects.
• Enable the Canada Infrastructure Bank to invest in AI infrastructure projects.
• $25M over six years to establish the Technology and AI Measurement Program (TechStat).

Protecting Canada’s intellectual property

• $84.4M over four years to extend the Scale AI program, plus $22.5M over three years starting in 2026-2027 to renew support for the Innovation Asset Collective’s patent portfolio.
• $75M over three years to the National Research Council to extend the IP Assist initiative.

Investing in high-growth companies and emerging fund managers

• $1B to the new Venture Capital and Growth Catalysis Initiative, a fund of funds that will mobilize more private venture capital by encouraging participation from pension funds and other institutional investors. This initiative will also support new fund managers and key sectors such as life sciences.
• Develop a strategy to help Canadian companies facing a lack of funding in their early growth stages, proposing $750M in funding for these businesses.

A more competitive and innovative financial system

• Stimulate investment by insurers and financial institutions by removing limits on portfolio investments and borrowing in financial institutions legislation, replacing them with more flexible guidelines set by the Office of the Superintendent of Financial Institutions.
• Explore additional ways to help Canadian capital markets and financial institutions mobilize capital for Canadian businesses and projects that will grow the economy.
• Publish a draft regulation prohibiting transfer fees on investment accounts and registered accounts. These fees currently average $150 per account for Canadians. The government will also require timely transfers of these accounts and clear disclosure of the process and fee-free nature.
• Work with banks to simplify the process of transferring primary chequing accounts from one Canadian financial institution to another.
• Amend the Bank Act and the Canada Deposit Insurance Corporation Act to make it easier for federal credit unions to expand and for provincial credit unions to join the federal framework.
• Make legislative changes to increase the threshold for the 35% public float requirement from $2B to $4B, allowing smaller financial institutions to grow further before modifying their structure.
• Work with banks to develop a voluntary code of conduct to improve access by smaller financial institutions to broker-distributed deposit channels.
• Advance open banking by introducing legislation to complement the Consumer-Driven Banking Act, and incorporate a data portability right into the Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act to facilitate data sharing across the economy.
• Delegate oversight of the Consumer-Driven Banking Act to the Bank of Canada, complementing its supervision of payment service providers. To do so, the Bank of Canada will retain up to $19.3M over two years from its remittances to the Receiver General.
• $25.7M over five years to the Canadian Security Intelligence Service and the Royal Canadian Mounted Police to support national security safeguards under the Consumer-Driven Banking Act.
• Introduce legislation to govern the issuance of Canadian dollar-backed stablecoins in Canada.

Simplifying the regulatory and legislative framework

• Make federal consultations with the financial sector more predictable and transparent for stakeholders.
• Amend customs tariff legislation for a pilot project on the donation of obsolete and surplus goods.
• Amend the Canada Post Corporation Act to deregulate postal rate-setting.

Limiting the use of non-compete clauses

• Amend the Canada Labour Code to restrict the use of non-compete clauses in employment contracts for federally regulated businesses.

Giving businesses the tools to grow and diversify

• $5B over six years to the Strategic Response Fund, a new flexible fund designed to help businesses across sectors and regions affected by tariffs to adapt, diversify and grow.
• Up to $1B over three years to regional development agencies for the Regional Tariff Response Initiative, supporting tariff-affected businesses across relevant sectors, including through increased non-repayable contributions to eligible businesses.

Supporting workers

• $570M over three years for Labour Market Development Agreements with provinces and territories, to support employment assistance and training for workers affected by tariffs and global market changes.
• $382.9M over five years to establish new Workforce Alliances, bringing together employers, unions and industry groups to find ways to help businesses and workers succeed in an evolving labour market and coordinate public and private investment in skills development. A new Workforce Innovation Fund will invest in projects tailored to local job markets to help businesses in key sectors and regions recruit and retain the workforce they need.
• $3.7B over three years for temporary Employment Insurance measures to increase income support for Canadian workers whose jobs are affected by economic uncertainty caused by foreign tariffs.
• $50M over five years to establish a new digital tool to facilitate job searching and applications, and launch a national online training platform in partnership with the private sector.

Protecting Canada’s strategic industries – Ensuring access to financing

• $10B to implement the Tariff-Impacted Large Business Credit, a new financing program to support Canadian businesses that would normally be performing well but are significantly impacted by tariffs and countermeasures in effect or possible.
• $231M for the Business Development Bank of Canada’s Pivot to Propel program to support eligible small and medium-sized steel sector businesses facing liquidity challenges.
• $940M in 2025-2026 to support the deferral of corporate income tax payments and GST/HST remittances owing to the Canada Revenue Agency from April 2 to June 30, 2025, to provide Canadian businesses with liquidity of up to $40B.

National procurement

• $98.2M over five years to facilitate implementation of the new Buy Canadian policy.
• $79.9M over five years to support the new Small and Medium Enterprises Procurement Program.

Tourism

• End the Tourism Growth Program administered by regional development agencies after 2025-2026.

National defence and security

Record defence investments

Defending our sovereignty

• Establish a new Defence Investment Agency to accelerate the procurement process.
• $38.7M over three years to maintain the Assault-Style Firearms Compensation Program.

Reinvesting to rebuild and rearm the Canadian Armed Forces

• $1.8B over five years to reinvest in rebuilding and rearming the Canadian Armed Forces.

Providing faster services to veterans

• $184.9M over four years and $40.1M per year thereafter to Veterans Affairs Canada to stabilize its capacity to process disability benefit applications.

A new Defence Investment Agency

• $30.8M over four years to create the Defence Investment Agency.
• $52.5M over five years to modernize and increase the capacity of the Industrial Security Program.

Strengthening Canada’s presence

• $2.7M over three years to the Department of National Defence to support the renewal of Operation REASSURANCE in Central and Eastern Europe and the Baltic states.
• $300.1M over three years to the Department of National Defence and the Communications Security Establishment to support Operation AMARNA in the Middle East.

Strengthening federal policing services

• $90.1M over four years to increase the cadet recruitment allowance to $1,000 per week.

Establishing the Canadian Financial Crimes Agency

• Leverage investments in federal law enforcement capabilities to create the new Canadian Financial Crimes Agency.

Canada Border Services Agency

• $617.7M over five years with $51.3M in remaining amortization and $198.3M per year thereafter, to support the core operations of the Canada Border Services Agency and increase the allowance paid to recruits.

Modernizing the Meteorological Service of Canada

• $2.7B over nine years with $57.4M in remaining amortization, to replace the high-performance computing solution for the Meteorological Service of Canada.

Renewing the National Public Alerting System

• $55.4M over four years to fund a new National Public Alerting System model.

Improving pre-clearance at Canadian borders

• $14.8M over four years to Transport Canada with $1.1M in 2030-2031 and $20.6M in amortization to create and implement a new pre-clearance access regime.

Removing assault-style firearms from circulation

• $38.7M over three years to maintain the Assault-Style Firearms Compensation Program.

Strengthening emergency management across the country

• $257.6M over four years to lease four aircraft to strengthen provinces’ and territories’ capacity to fight wildfires by air.

Combating financial fraud

• Develop a National Anti-Fraud Strategy involving the whole of government.
• Require banks to adopt policies and procedures to counter consumer-targeted fraud.
• Allow consumers to set maximum transaction amounts for their bank accounts.
• Require banks to report data on consumer-targeted fraud to the Financial Consumer Agency of Canada.

Ensuring crime does not pay

• Protect businesses from criminal abuse by amending the Proceeds of Crime (Money Laundering) and Terrorist Financing Act.
• Amend the Proceeds of Crime (Money Laundering) and Terrorist Financing Act and make related amendments to the Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act.

Strengthening review of foreign bank investments

• Amend the Bank Act to enable review of certain types of investments made by foreign banks.
• Increase the resilience of the insurance sector against natural disasters.
• Consult federally regulated property and casualty insurers on ways to ensure the stability of Canada’s insurance sector in the event of a major earthquake.

Transportation and infrastructure

A new infrastructure fund

Investing in infrastructure for generations to come

• $51.0B over 10 years starting in 2026-2027 to launch a new Fund for Strong Communities, administered by Housing, Infrastructure and Communities Canada.
• Pass legislation to accelerate the development of the Alto high-speed rail project.

Stimulating investment in ports and airports

• Further unlock the economic potential of Canadian airports and explore new ways to attract private investment, including by negotiating lease extensions with airport authorities. The government will also examine various scenarios for privatizing airports.
• Provide $55.2M over four years, with $72.5M in remaining amortization and $15.7M per year thereafter, to support infrastructure projects and renovations to improve safety at local and regional airports, including dual-use infrastructure.

Increasing competition in the Canadian telecommunications sector

• Adopt a « dig once » approach for projects of national interest to encourage coordinated installation of fibre optic lines as part of major nationally significant project development.
• Reduce the regulatory burden associated with deploying telecommunications infrastructure in Canada, including by consulting on a streamlined process for antenna tower siting later this fiscal year.
• Ensure industry has access to quality spectrum, including by releasing additional spectrum, consulting on a modernized spectrum licence transfer framework toward the end of 2025-2026, and continuing to use the simplified auction framework for remaining spectrum licences established in 2021.

Growing and diversifying Canada’s international trade – New Trade Infrastructure Strategy

• $1B over four years to create the Arctic Infrastructure Fund, investing in major northern transportation projects with potential civil and military uses, including airports, seaports, all-season roads and highways.

Agriculture

Enhanced programs

Supporting agriculture, fisheries and seafood sectors

• $109.2M for the AgriStability program, a federal-provincial-territorial cost-shared program, to increase the compensation rate for agricultural producers and the per-farm payment cap to help producers cope with current challenges.
• $75M over five years for the AgriMarketing program to strengthen diversification and export promotion of agricultural and agri-food products and fisheries and seafood products in new markets.
• $97.5M over two years to temporarily raise the interest-free advance limit under the Advance Payments Program for canola to $500,000 for the 2025 and 2026 program years.
• $372M over two years for a biofuel production incentive to support the stability and resilience of domestic biodiesel and renewable diesel producers, of which $175.2M will be reallocated from the Clean Fuels Fund.
• Amend the Farm Credit Canada Act to provide for periodic legislative reviews to ensure alignment with the needs of the agriculture and agri-food sector.

Immigration and labour

Reducing immigration targets

2026-2028 Immigration Levels Plan

• Stabilize 2026-2028 permanent resident admission targets, maintaining them at 380,000 per year for three years, compared to 395,000 in 2025, while increasing the share of economic immigrants from 59% to 64%. The new plan will also reduce the target for new temporary resident admissions to 385,000 in 2026 and 370,000 in 2027 and 2028, compared to 673,650 in 2025. The financial cost of this measure is estimated at $168.2M over four years starting in 2026-2027, and $35.7M per year thereafter.
• Take into account industries and sectors affected by tariffs as well as the specific needs of rural and remote communities.
• Establish a one-time initiative to grant permanent resident status to eligible protected persons over the next two years.
• Implement a one-time measure to accelerate the transition, in 2026 and 2027, of up to 33,000 work permit holders to permanent residence.

Recruiting talent from abroad

• $1M over 13 years starting in 2025-2026 to the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council, the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, and the Canadian Institutes of Health Research to launch an accelerated research chairs initiative to recruit exceptional foreign researchers to Canadian universities.
• $400M over seven years to the Canada Foundation for Innovation to create a complementary research infrastructure support stream to ensure recruited researchers have the equipment needed to conduct research in Canada.
• $133.6M over three years to improve the relocation to Canada of the world’s top doctoral students and postdoctoral research fellows.
• $120M over 12 years to granting councils to help universities recruit adjunct professors from abroad, as needed.
• Expand the Apprenticeship Innovation Fund, including in relation to Red Seal designated trades, and invest in the Foreign Credential Recognition Fund.

Environment, energy and natural resources

Clean economy and critical minerals

Biosecurity and contaminants

• Amend and modernize the Human Pathogens and Toxins Act to strengthen oversight of human pathogens and toxins.
• Amend legislation to remove cyclical pesticide re-evaluations and facilitate modern risk-based oversight.

Adjusting greenhouse gas emission regulations

• Propose legislative amendments to the Canadian Environmental Protection Act, including on methane, greenhouse gas emissions caps, electric vehicles and clean fuels.

Stimulating clean economy investment through tax credits

• Implement the Clean Electricity Investment Tax Credit and propose to remove conditions that provincial and territorial governments must meet for their Crown corporations to be eligible for the credit.
• Extend by five years the availability of full rates for the Carbon Capture, Utilization and Storage Investment Tax Credit, which would apply from 2031 to 2035. Credit rates would remain unchanged from 2036 to 2040.

Supporting critical minerals projects

• $2B over five years for the creation of the Critical Minerals Sovereign Fund.
• $371.8M over four years to create the First and Last Mile Fund. This new fund would support the development of critical minerals projects and supply chains in upstream and midstream segments of value chains, with a focus on bringing short-term projects into production.
• Expand eligibility for the Critical Mineral Exploration Tax Credit by adding the following 12 critical minerals needed for defence, semiconductors, energy and clean technologies: bismuth, cesium, chromium, fluorine, germanium, indium, manganese, molybdenum, niobium, tantalum, tin and tungsten.
• Expand the list of critical minerals eligible for the Clean Technology Manufacturing Investment Tax Credit to include antimony, indium, gallium, germanium and scandium, to support investment in the extraction, processing and recycling of critical mineral co-products and by-products.

Mobilizing capital in support of the transition to net zero

• Support the independent development of Canadian sustainable investment guidelines by the end of 2026.
• Develop a sustainable bonds framework that would allow for the issuance of green and transition bonds aligned with the Canadian taxonomy.
• Work with provinces and territories to improve climate-related financial disclosures across the economy.

Immediate expensing for manufacturing and processing buildings and accelerated capital cost allowance for low-carbon LNG facilities

• Allow immediate expensing of the cost of manufacturing or processing buildings acquired on or after budget day and to be used for manufacturing or processing before 2030.
• Reinstate accelerated capital cost allowance (CCA) for liquefied natural gas (LNG) equipment and related buildings, but only for low-carbon LNG facilities.

Updating greenwashing legislation

• Propose legislative amendments that will remove certain aspects of greenwashing legislation while continuing to protect against false claims.

Supporting the implementation of the Climate Competitiveness Strategy

• Develop new metrics to illustrate how businesses and households are reducing their carbon footprint, the growth of the clean economy and export progress toward world-class emissions intensity.
• Amend the Canadian Energy Regulator Act to extend the maximum duration of LNG export permits from 40 to 50 years.
• End the NRCan 2 Billion Trees program.

Promoting youth climate service

• $40M over two years to create a youth climate service offering paid professional training for young Canadians.

Supporting the forestry sector

• $700M over two years to provide loan guarantees to help businesses obtain the financing and credit support needed to continue and restructure their operations during this period of transformation.
• $500M over three years to renew and expand the scope of existing Natural Resources Canada forestry programs focused on product and market diversification, including new export initiatives, a commitment to prioritize Canadian materials in construction projects, and modifications to federal procurement processes to favour domestic sourcing.

Housing

Accelerating housing construction

Investing in infrastructure for generations to come

• $51B over 10 years starting in 2026-2027, and $3B per year thereafter.
• Quebec projects selected:
  • Shark pavilion at the Exploramer museum – Sainte-Anne-des-Monts,
  • Espace Hubert-Reeves – Charlevoix,
  • Forillon Shipyard – Gaspe.

Building more multi-unit residential buildings

• Raise the annual issuance limit of Canada Mortgage Bonds (CMBs) from $60B to $80B starting in 2026, enabling the construction of thousands of new homes each year.

International trade and global affairs

Diversification and global engagement

New Trade Infrastructure Strategy

• $5M over seven years to create the Trade Corridor Diversification Fund.
• Designate additional ports for the import and export of containers, particularly in the Great Lakes and St. Lawrence region (including strengthening the Port of Saguenay’s capacity to build a second berth), to stimulate private investment in ports and diversify Canada’s trade.

Growing and diversifying Canada’s trade

• $25B by 2030 to enhance EDC’s total facilitated business to increase Canada’s exports and trade expansion activities in sectors of strategic importance, such as critical minerals, energy, clean technologies, infrastructure and defence.
• Create the Strategic Exports Office in line with Canada’s new target to double its exports to countries other than the United States over the next 10 years.

Establishing new connections between Canadian and European businesses

• $8M over four years to strengthen trade relationships with European partners.

Removing barriers and modernizing trade

• $20M over four years to strengthen Global Affairs Canada’s capacity to negotiate and implement trade agreements.

Integrating Canadian businesses into the global market

• $2B in a concessional financing envelope for EDC to incentivize international partners to purchase Canadian products and services.

Supporting businesses exploring new markets

• $68.5M over four years starting in 2026-2027, and $19.9M per year thereafter, to Global Affairs Canada to enhance the CanExport program.
• $7.6M over four years starting in 2026-2027, and $2.1M per year thereafter, to Global Affairs Canada to support Canadian businesses through the Innovation Partnership Program and the Canadian Technology Accelerators program.
• $46.5M over four years starting in 2026-2027 to Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada for the SME Export Readiness Initiative to fund training for SMEs with limited export experience.
• $4.2M over three years starting in 2027-2028, and $1.4M per year thereafter, to Natural Resources Canada to maintain its capacity to promote nuclear energy exports.
• $39.9M over four years starting in 2026-2027, and $11.1M per year thereafter, to the National Research Council of Canada.

Growing food exports

• $76M over five years starting in 2026-2027, with $31.3M in remaining amortization, to the Canadian Food Inspection Agency.
• $32.8M over four years starting in 2026-2027, and $9.6M per year thereafter, to the CFIA to restore market access for Canadian agricultural sectors.

First Nations

Greater involvement for the Canada Infrastructure Bank

Supporting Indigenous housing and infrastructure

• Increase the Canada Infrastructure Bank’s target for investments in Indigenous infrastructure benefiting First Nations, Inuit and Metis communities from at least $1B to a minimum of $3B in its priority sectors.

Strengthening First Nations infrastructure funding and access to clean drinking water

• $2.3M over three years for the renewal of the Enhanced First Nations Water and Wastewater Program.

New Trade Infrastructure Strategy

• $25.5M over four years to Crown-Indigenous Relations and Northern Affairs Canada, and $41.7M over four years to accelerate regulatory processes in northern Canada, including consultations with Indigenous governments and organizations and local communities, so that the Arctic Infrastructure Fund can better support project delivery in the North.
• $10.1M over three years for the continuation of the Federal Consultation Initiative to promote meaningful participation of Indigenous rights holders in consultation processes throughout the review cycle for projects of national interest under the Building Canada Act, including through Indigenous-led resource centres and consultation protocols.
• Ask the Indigenous Loan Guarantee Corporation of Canada to work with Indigenous investors on projects involving new facilities (new construction) that will deliver benefits to Indigenous communities for generations to come.

Culture

Funding Canadian content creation

Investing in Canadian creators and the cultural economy

• $48M over three years for the Canada Music Fund to advance the careers of Canadian artists while strengthening the competitiveness and stability of the Canadian music sector.
• $6M over three years to the TV5MONDEplus platform for the purchase of Canadian content.
• $150M over three years to Telefilm Canada to support the vitality of the Canadian film industry.
• $127.5M over three years for the Canada Media Fund to support Canadian audiovisual content creators.
• $26.1M over three years to the National Film Board to produce Canadian content and distribute it around the world.
• $38.4M over three years for the Special Measures for Journalism component of the Canada Periodical Fund to help small news outlets and community media maintain the production of quality Canadian editorial and journalistic content.
• $6M over three years to the Canada Council for the Arts to provide support to professional artists and arts organizations.

Bringing Canadians together through cultural experiences and community celebrations

• $21M over three years for the Building Communities Through Arts and Heritage program to support local festivals, community commemorations and community capital projects.
• $46.5M over three years for the Canada Arts Presentation Fund to support organizations that professionally present arts festivals or performing arts series.
• $20M over four years for the Celebrations and Commemorations Program to support Canada Day celebrations.
• $4M over four years for the Celebrations and Commemorations Program to support National Acadian Day celebrations.
• $9M over three years to Environment and Climate Change Canada to support the Biosphere in Montreal.

Protecting copyright in the arts and creative sector

• Amend the Copyright Act to establish an artist’s resale right in Canada, so that members of the Canadian visual arts community benefit from future sales of their works.

Supporting the Royal Canadian Geographical Society

• $4M over four years to the Royal Canadian Geographical Society.

Women and gender equality

Increased funding

• $28.4M over four years for the Department to continue its essential work to eliminate discrimination and promote the rights of women and 2SLGBTQI+ communities.