iPolitics By Catharine Fulton. Published on Apr 24, 2021 12:15pm The West Block of the House of Commons on Parliament Hill in Ottawa (Jolson Lim/iPolitics)
Budget 2021 debate
On the horizon is the fourth and final day of debate of Budget 2021, specifically, Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland’s motion that her fellow MPs “approve in general the budgetary policy of the government.” A pretty straightforward motion for a such whopping historically so 739-page document.
Background: Freeland tabled the government’s first pandemic budget titled “A Recovery Plan for Jobs, Growth, and Resilience” on Monday, laying out $119.1 billion in new spending. While “unprecedented” is certainly the word of the pandemic, it can also be applied to the estimated $354.2-billion deficit for the 2020-21 year.
OTTAWA The federal government is proposing to allow Canadians go to the polls over a weekend, and wants to set up new mail-in ballot measures in anticipation of increased demand for them, should a snap general election get called while the COVID-19 pandemic is still surging. These proposed changes are among several in a new piece of legislation called Bill C-19, bringing what the Liberals are considering “temporary” changes to the Canada Elections Act. The amendments are targeted at mitigating challenges that could arise when administering a federal election during the COVID-19 pandemic, including the anticipation that up to five million electors would opt to vote by mail, a dramatic increase from the nearly 50,000 in the 2019 federal election.
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