The funding announcement includes $30 billion towards a national child-care plan, $17.6 billion for green investments and $12 billion to extend COVID-19 business aid programs.Noticeably absent from the budget, however, is a promised pharmacare plan and significant measures to cool the red-hot real estate market in the country.
Freeland spoke to CTV's Chief News Anchor and Senior Editor Lisa LaFlamme shortly after revealing the 2021 budget to discuss its highlights, its omissions, the third wave of the COVID-19 pandemic and how Canada will recover from a $354.2-billion deficit.The first federal budget in two years, 724 pages and billions in new spending. Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland joins me now. First female finance minister and you finally got the national child-care program in writing.
Well, a lot of provinces are already spending significant amounts of money on early learning and child care and so we're going to be there to support them. The other great thing about early learning and child care is this is a program which actually delivers economic benefits and that's just not just a theory. At least that is what the experience of Quebec shows. Every dollar you invest in early learning and child care comes back to you.
Feminist are you kidding me. What about Jody Wilson Raybould and Jane Philpott.
LisaLaFlammeCTV you the bomb girl...you asked thar incompetent finance minister the write question..what did her answer have to do with tax deadlines extension..I am a tax accountant..I am so happy you did it .now that is journalism..bravo ..you clapped back
Bankrupting the country
CTV is Liberal media
Buying votes at its finest *chef's kiss*
Just a friendly chat between a couple of Liberal journalists......
squeezing out the middleclass ... creating a bunch of individuals resenting the government once they see how much taxes are forced onto them. firstworldproblems
I still don't know how LisaLaFlammeCTV made it through that convo with smug, smarmy, unctuous, condescending EvilSmurfette™ without projectile vomiting. Must have covered herself with anti-nausea patches.
This budget will never pass. They might as well just send money to every registered liberal.
State run media helping promote the over spending that will get the IMF and WEFs great reset in this country.
Real debt on the table. Too bad Justin and Freeland don’t understand the concept of a balance sheet, inflation and that budgets don’t balance itself.
Well done Lisa nice to see a Canadian journalist actually aggressively and fairly questioning our government firstly. Also amazing how Freeland totally ignored the whole pharma point all together, 100% dodgeball on that. Dodge, duck, dip, dive, dodge.
I remember when one job was enough for a family to live on. We didn't need daycare.
Tax payer money not liberal money and I have a feeling we are in big financial trouble. So sad your children will pay. Money for health care? Money for seniors?Money for every day hard working Canadians. No this is a budget for those that have and they will take and take. 🙈🙀🙀
Why don't the Liberals care for women who don't have kids?