The federal Liberal government responded Thursday to months of pressure from the NATO military alliance and others by promising more than $8 billion in new military spending over the next five years.
Ottawa is preparing to spend $4.3 billion over seven years to help improve Indigenous housing, while also giving more to help communities contend with the harmful past of residential schools.
The Canadian government says it has learned from Australia s experience when it comes to requiring online giants to pay news outlets to use their journalism, and has framed its bill to avoid the country s pitfalls.
As Canadians face a cost of living crunch, tackling housing affordability is going to be a main feature of Thursday s federal budget, seeing the Liberals earmark $10 billion towards this aim. The 2022 federal budget will also include a defence spending increase over multiple years, but the expected $8 billion wouldn t bring military spending up to the level many are calling for.
The New Democrats are confident there will be no surprises in the federal budget and that the Liberals will honour spending pledges made in their confidence-and-supply pact.