FINA Committee Report
If you have any questions or comments regarding the accessibility of this publication, please contact us at accessible@parl.gc.ca.
Appendix A: Proposals by Witnesses
The following tables show the proposals made by organizations and individuals who appeared before the committee for this year’s pre-budget consultations, as well as the proposals contained in their briefs.
Adaptation to Climate Change and Preservation
Witness Name |
Witness Proposal |
Date of Appearance |
|
Assembly of First Nations |
[Invest in] First Nations-led conservation [and biodiversity preservation efforts]. |
||
Canadian Federation of Agriculture |
Start the process of revising key risk management programs, … in particular AgriRecovery, to ensure they are more timely, responsive and predictable in the face of increasing disaster-related events caused by climate change. |
||
Canadian Federation of Agriculture |
Ensure that sustainability issues are … focused [on farmers] and provide support to help them adapt to the effects of climate change. |
||
Colleges and Institutes Canada |
Establish … Climate Adaptation Hubs led by colleges, to harness the power of applied research to support local communities and businesses in adapting to climate change. |
||
Greater Charlottetown Area Chamber of Commerce |
[Work together to implement measures to support] hurricane readiness for business operations and buildings, and systems hardening for protection of businesses for the new hurricane season and climate change. |
||
Green Budget Coalition |
Deliver on Canada’s commitment to halt and reverse biodiversity loss by implementing the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework. |
||
Prince Edward Island Federation of Agriculture |
[Improve agricultural business risk management programs by creating] aid systems that can help businesses and communities rebuild more quickly [after climate change-related natural disasters]. |
||
Prince Edward Island Federation of Agriculture |
[Invest strategically] in climate-resilient agriculture. |
||
Rural Municipalities of Alberta |
Commit to developing a new component of the [Disaster Mitigation and Adaptation Fund] that provides funding strictly for rural communities and utilizes a much lower project expenditure threshold and higher federal cost-share contribution [to] help empower local leaders in communities of all types to adapt to climate change. |
||
Rural Municipalities of Alberta |
Develop strategies and programs to support rural municipalities in making informed decisions related to mitigating disaster risk, [such as flooding, including local mitigation programs] … [and provide] funding to [the] FireSmart [Canada program] to map wildfire risks ... and … for community wildlife mitigation projects. |
||
Union des municipalités du Québec |
Significantly increase … investments in the Disaster Mitigation and Adaptation Fund to accelerate the deployment of climate-resilient infrastructure. |
||
Agriculture, Food and Fisheries
Witness Name |
Witness Proposal |
Date of Appearance |
Abbotsford Chamber of Commerce |
Foster the success of new industries such as agriculture technology, which has a natural home in Abbotsford. |
|
Assembly of First Nations |
[Make] investments to enhance access to nutritious and traditional foods, sustainable food systems, and environmental protection initiatives. |
|
Canadian Animal Health Institute |
Amend the fees related to the veterinary drug services policy to an amount that would make Canada proportionally competitive to key trading partners. |
|
Canadian Animal Health Institute |
Amend the Food and Drug Act to allow foreign decisions by trusted regulatory authorities in other jurisdictions for Manufacturing, Quality and Clinical Efficacy Reviews related to the authorization of veterinary drugs. |
|
Canadian Animal Health Institute |
Amend [the] policy and abolish drug establishment licence fees for low-risk active pharmaceutical ingredients. |
|
Canadian Chamber of Commerce |
Strengthen investment in agriculture. Partner with businesses on research, product development and the commercialization of the agri-food sector, while developing policy mechanisms and supports to incentivize private-sector research and development investment. |
|
Canadian Chamber of Commerce |
Encourage value added agricultural processing. |
|
Canadian Federation of Agriculture |
Continue to support farmers through the Advance Payments Program [by increasing on a permanent basis] the interest-free limit for advances. |
|
Canadian Federation of Agriculture |
Introduce a permanent accelerated capital cost allowance across all classes of farm equipment that would allow producers to depreciate 100% of their capital allocated to purchases of farm equipment for the first fiscal year. |
|
Canadian Federation of Agriculture |
Ensure that a whole-of-government approach is put in place to support robust incentives for the adoption [by farmers] of best management practices [related to sustainable agriculture, including extension services that provide on-the-ground support], alongside investments to advance research. |
|
Canadian Federation of Agriculture |
[Increase the] lifetime capital gains exemption. |
|
Canadian Federation of Agriculture |
[Ensure] that [any changes to the Income Tax Act] provisions … [regulating] intergenerational transfers do not discourage genuine family transfers from taking place. |
|
Canadian Federation of Agriculture |
Consult on and develop a Critical Farm Input Strategy to ensure that Canadian producers have a long-term, stable source of supply for critical farm inputs, including fertilizer, needed to produce high quality agriculture and agri-food products. |
|
Canadian Federation of Agriculture |
Implement a new national grant program modelled after the Canada Digital Adoption Program, which would support on-farm risk management planning and mitigation. |
|
Canadian Federation of Agriculture |
Increase AgriStability program coverage to 85% of the reference margin. |
|
Canadian Federation of Agriculture |
Ensure that the Pest Management Regulatory Agency is appropriately resourced and improves internal processes in support of timely, transparent, and science-based decisions. |
|
Canadian Federation of Agriculture |
Exempt farms from filing the Underused Housing Tax ... return. |
|
Canadian Federation of Agriculture |
Implement measures to support a farmer’s right to repair their farm machinery. |
|
Canadian Federation of Agriculture |
Ensure the launch of the Sustainable Agriculture Strategy is inclusive of all agricultural commodities and is accompanied with an ambitious funding envelope commensurate with the incentives, research, and knowledge transfer activities required to reflect the interrelated demands of environmental, economic and social sustainability. |
|
Canadian Federation of Agriculture |
Provide financial support through the first 2 to 3 years for the creation of a Grocery Code Adjudication Office, which will be critical to advance the training, education, dispute resolution services, and oversight necessary to implement an industry-led Grocery Industry Code of Conduct. |
|
Canadian Federation of Agriculture |
Provide financial support to establish a Secretariat that will support the implementation of the National Workforce Strategy for Agriculture and Food and Beverage Manufacturing. |
|
Canadian Federation of Agriculture |
[Expand] the definition of a “child” [in the Income Tax Act] to also allow sibling shareholders to pass a non-controlling share of their ownership to the next generation. |
|
Canadian Federation of Agriculture |
Advocate for the elimination of non-tariff barriers to trade in international trade agreements. |
|
Canadian Federation of Agriculture |
Ensure no additional access to supply-managed sectors in future trade agreements. |
|
Équiterre |
Foster sustainable agricultural practices by providing funding to train and hire … additional advisory services officers … and by expanding the On-Farm Climate Action Fund. |
|
Équiterre |
Protect farmland and facilitate succession by creating an Agricultural Gifts Program and a fund to support access to farmland. |
|
Équiterre |
Help ensure that healthy eating is affordable in public institutions by expanding existing school food programs … and by enhancing the infrastructure and capacity of partner institutions and agencies. |
|
Fish Food and Allied Workers - Unifor |
Make important commercial species [such as mackerel, snow crab, seal, northern shrimp and northern cod] a priority [in] assessing the health of [Canada’s] marine species and determining management plans based on those assessments. |
|
Fish Food and Allied Workers - Unifor |
[Ensure that the Fisheries Act and related regulations, which] acknowledge that the owner-operator fishery brings substantially more value to [the] economy than corporate-owned fisheries, … are vigorously enforced to bring consequences to delinquents and protect the future of … communities. |
|
Green Budget Coalition |
[Implement measures to support] sustainable agriculture … to help … Canada [become] a leader in sustainable and innovative agriculture with a resilient and diversified food system. |
|
Greener Village |
[Create] … an earmarked fund to support a national pilot program … available to food banks. |
|
Greener Village |
Develop and support initiatives that strengthen local food systems, divert edible food from landfills and promote autonomy and resilience for citizens and communities. |
|
Greener Village |
[Catalyze entrepreneurship to promote craft food production by facilitating] the creation of, and access to, food storage and [Canadian Food Inspection Agency-compliant] and class 5 commercial rental kitchens. |
|
Greener Village |
Reduce dependency on food imports … [by investing] in intraprovincial and interprovincial food transportation, warehousing and cold storage infrastructure to decrease food waste, transportation costs, greenhouse gas emissions and the reliance on imported foods. |
|
Greener Village |
Consider … investment into the food bank network. |
|
Keystone Agricultural Producers |
Exempt farms from filing the underused housing tax … return. |
|
Keystone Agricultural Producers |
Ensure that the Pest Management Regulatory Agency … is appropriately resourced and improves their internal processes in support of timely, transparent and science-based decisions that will help Canadian producers remain competitive in a global market. |
|
Keystone Agricultural Producers |
Ensure that the launch of a sustainable agriculture strategy is inclusive of all agriculture commodities. |
|
Keystone Agricultural Producers |
Increase AgriStability coverage to 85% of the reference margin. |
|
Keystone Agricultural Producers |
Implement measures to support farmers' right to repair their own farm machinery. |
|
Keystone Agricultural Producers |
Increase the capital gains exemption threshold [for qualified farm or fishing property] above $1 million to be more in line with current land values. |
|
Keystone Agricultural Producers |
Making changes to the Income Tax Act regarding the expanded definition of a child for passing on non-controlling shares of ownership to the next generation. |
|
National Cattle Feeders’ Association |
Consult on and develop a Critical Farm Input Strategy to ensure Canadian producers have an affordable and stable supply for critical farm inputs. |
|
National Cattle Feeders’ Association |
Provide increased and predictable funding to the Canadian Integrated Program for Antimicrobial Resistance Surveillance for an enhanced national antimicrobial use, resistance and surveillance program. |
|
National Cattle Feeders’ Association |
Maintain the interest-free portion of the Advanced Payments Program at a level of $350,000. |
|
National Cattle Feeders’ Association |
Foster a business environment that supports Canadian agriculture through regulatory, policy, and taxation requirements that track alongside those of [Canada’s] international competitors. |
|
Ocean Choice International |
Increase funding resources for robust fishery science to support management decision-making. |
|
Ocean Choice International |
[Ensure that Fisheries and Oceans Canada] engage with [the fishing] industry and leverage industry resources promptly to guarantee that [stock] assessments can be completed on a timely basis. |
|
Ocean Choice International |
Implement measures to mitigate the high cost of fuel due to the clean fuel regulations for sectors with no ability to control the cost. |
|
Ocean Choice International |
Continue to provide funding to the Atlantic Fisheries Fund to facilitate strategic and transformative investments for the region. |
|
Prince Edward Island Federation of Agriculture |
[Maintain the interest-free portion of loans offered by] the advance payments program. |
|
Prince Edward Island Fishermen's Association |
[Provide] funding for scientific research to establish baseline data in fishing areas where on-water wind generation is proposed. |
|
Prince Edward Island Fishermen's Association |
[Reduce] the number of licences for some species [of fish, such as groundfish, tuna, herring and mackerel by a minimum of 50%] through a targeted licence buy-back program … to put these fisheries in line with available quotas. |
|
Prince Edward Island Fishermen's Association |
[Allocate funding for] scientific research to assess offshore area impacts of tropical storm Fiona on [Prince Edward Island, including on lobster stocks]. |
|
The Mustard Seed |
Work in partnership with provinces and territories, indigenous peoples and non-profit organizations to develop and implement a national school nutritious meal program and related school food policies in support of and in line with the evolving food policy for Canada … [and ensure] funding … [reaches] the local level. |
Arts, Culture and Language
Witness Name |
Witness Proposal |
Date of Appearance |
Alliance des femmes de la francophonie canadienne |
Ensure specific core funding for all minority francophone and Acadian women's organizations and [increase the] the envelope of funds allocated as core funding for Canadian Francophonie organizations. |
|
Alliance des femmes de la francophonie canadienne |
Set aside a specific envelope for francophone and Acadian women's organizations as part of the funding allocated to all federal institutions. |
|
Alliance des femmes de la francophonie canadienne |
Invest in facilitating access to resources and services for francophone caregivers. |
|
Alliance of Canadian Cinema, Television and Radio Artists |
Operationalize the Policy Statement in the Status of the Artist Act by … directing all appropriate federal agencies to require that, as a condition of funding, every producer of Canadian content must adhere to the terms and conditions of the appropriate collective agreements … [and] directing the [Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission] to introduce an analogous requirement on every undertaking it licenses or regulates. |
|
Alliance of Canadian Cinema, Television and Radio Artists |
[Introduce legislation to provide] protections for performer’s images, likeness, voices, and performances to prevent unauthorized replacement of human performances by artificial intelligence technology. |
|
Alliance of Canadian Cinema, Television and Radio Artists |
Update Canada’s Copyright Act for all artists to ensure they can be compensated when their work is used [by expanding] Moral Rights provisions … to strengthen [artists’] common law “right of personality” … [and by strengthening] Economic Rights provisions … to keep up with international standards, and technological advancements. |
|
Alliance of Canadian Cinema, Television and Radio Artists |
[Institute] an un-waivable right for performers in making available fixed performances to on-demand and interactive streaming, both for sound recordings and audiovisual recordings. |
|
Alliance of Canadian Cinema, Television and Radio Artists |
[Continue] efforts to achieve a more equitable, diverse, and inclusive recorded media industry. |
|
Assembly of First Nations |
[Make] investments to urgently reverse language decline and support initiatives in non-school settings. |
|
Association canadienne-française de l'Alberta |
[Increase] the Action Plan for Official Languages 2023-2028 ... core funding for organizations that serve francophone minority language communities. |
|
Association canadienne-française de l'Alberta |
Create a ... strategic fund ... within the Department of Foreign Affairs to support an effective strategy for internationalizing La Francophonie. |
|
Association canadienne-française de l'Alberta |
Provide the funding needed to implement the new Official Languages Act so that federal departments and agencies and minority language communities receive adequate funding to meet the act’s new requirements. |
|
Association canadienne-française de l'Alberta |
Ensure that amounts added to the latest Action Plan for Official Languages are made permanent to allow the sustainable and ongoing growth of minority language communities. |
|
Association canadienne-française de l'Alberta |
Review [the] funding envelopes [for Alberta's francophonie] to reflect [new realities, such as the growth of its French-speaking population]. |
|
Association canadienne-française de l'Alberta |
[Review the amounts allocated to] the official languages in education program [for Alberta given] that [its] population and educational needs have grown significantly. |
|
Association canadienne-française de l'Alberta |
Continue to include language clauses [in transfers] to the provinces and territories for various initiatives. |
|
Association culturelle de la francophonie manitobaine |
[Support] organizations such as the [Association culturelle de la francophonie manitobaine], which work for the development of rural regions through arts, culture and heritage. |
|
Association des collèges et universités de la francophonie canadienne |
Permanently increase funding to support post-secondary institutions in official language minority communities. |
|
Association des collèges et universités de la francophonie canadienne |
Create a post-secondary bursary program for students whose first language is French, with an envelope … equivalent to [that of] the existing program for students whose second language is French. |
|
Association québécoise de l'industrie du disque, du spectacle et de la vidéo |
Increase annual contributions to the Canada Music Fund ... to ensure better and more stable funding for the music sector. |
|
Canadian Independent Music Association |
Fulfill the Government commitment to a permanent increase to the Canada Music Fund ..., along with [additional funding] for new live programming. |
|
Canadian Independent Music Association |
[Expedite] amendments to the Copyright Act … and support reforms that benefit Canadian-owned independent music. |
|
Canadian Independent Music Association |
Ensure that new funding mechanisms resulting from [Bill] C-11, the Online Streaming Act, … prioritize provisions for funding to be directed to FACTOR and Musicaction. |
|
Community Radio Fund of Canada |
Provide an annual operating budget for all community, Indigenous, and campus-licenced radio stations, [which] could be established and administered by the Community Radio Fund of Canada. |
|
Community Radio Fund of Canada |
Increase funding for the Local Journalism Initiative …and ensure the funding is timely. |
|
Community Radio Fund of Canada |
Make advertising with campus and community radio stations mandatory for all government advertising campaigns. |
|
Confédération des syndicats nationaux |
Support the media … [and do not deprive it] of revenue. |
|
Festivals and Major Events Canada |
Make permanent the additions made to the base budget of [the Canada Arts Presentation Fund and the Building Communities Through Arts and Heritage program] in 2019–2020. |
|
Festivals and Major Events Canada |
[Provide] additional funding to [the Canada Arts Presentation Fund] and the Building Communities Through Arts and Heritage program. |
|
Université de l’Ontario français |
Permanently increase the funding … to the post-secondary sector in official language minority communities. |
Carbon Pollution Pricing
Witness Name |
Witness Proposal |
Date of Appearance |
Canadian Federation of Agriculture |
Extend the on-farm exemption for qualifying farming fuel to marketable natural gas and propane. |
|
Canadian Federation of Independent Business |
Freeze the carbon tax at its current level and find a simple way to return the carbon tax collected from small businesses back to them. |
|
Canadian Federation of Independent Business |
[Return to all small businesses the carbon tax amounts that have] already been earmarked for [them] and collected from them. |
|
Canadian Federation of Independent Business |
Expedite the passing of Bill C-234, An Act to amend the Greenhouse Gas Pollution Pricing Act, to exempt natural gas and propane used for on-farm activities. |
|
Dalhousie University, Agri-Food Analytics Lab |
Evaluate [the] effects [of the carbon tax] on the affordability of food for Canadians and the long-term competitiveness of [Canada’s] industries. |
|
Dalhousie University, Agri-Food Analytics Lab |
[Consider] a temporary pause on any carbon pricing policies affecting [the] food supply chain … until we gain a clearer understanding of their impact. |
|
Dooley's Trucking |
[Listen] to what the industry is saying about the cause and effects of [the carbon tax]. |
|
Keystone Agricultural Producers |
Extend the on-farm exemption for qualifying farm fuel to marketable natural gas and propane. |
|
Mark Purdon (as an Individual) |
[Revisit the advantages of] emissions trading systems linked with the United States … [and] carbon climate finance mechanisms … for reducing emissions in co-operation with other developing economies where costs of reducing emissions are lower. |
|
Pierre-Olivier Pineau (as an individual) |
Design policies, such as more ecofiscality, to encourage Canadians to spend less on items that pollute and spend more on items that don't pollute. |
|
Prince Edward Island Federation of Agriculture |
[Match] continued investment in [the on-farm climate action fund] … with additional resources for the establishment of soil carbon as part of Canada's greenhouse gas offset credit system. |
|
Prince Edward Island Federation of Agriculture |
[Implement a mechanism to] ensure that … [emissions] reductions [are] measured, verified and reported to … the Canadian regulated credit system—rather than a voluntary market. |
Children, Families and Social Policy
Witness Name |
Witness Proposal |
Date of Appearance |
||
Assembly of First Nations |
[Make] investments to support ongoing inflation relief benefits for First Nations [Income Assistance] clients. |
|||
Assembly of First Nations |
[Make] investments for First Nations youth to thrive and support their transition into adulthood. |
|||
Business Council of Manitoba |
[Implement] a joint funding program with provinces to create new day care spaces, and to recruit and train workers in support of the national $10-a-day day care program. |
|||
C.D. Howe Institute |
[Replace] the tax deduction granted for childcare expenses ... with a refundable tax credit. |
|||
C.D. Howe Institute |
Implement a benefit shields, focusing on the Child Tax Benefit and the Canada Workers Benefit … [which] would partly compensate workers for the loss of certain income-tested tax credits – but only in the first year after they take on more work. |
|||
Canadian Worker Co-operative Federation |
Implement the recommendations from the Social Innovation and Social Finance … Strategy. |
|||
Centre for Future Work |
Continue and expand targeted fiscal supports for hard-hit Canadians, such as the GST credit and the Canada housing benefit. |
|||
Coalition Canada Basic Income |
Develop… a [Guaranteed Basic Income] for working-age adults aged 18 to 64, including migrant workers, temporary and permanent residents and refugee claimants. |
|||
Coalition Canada Basic Income |
Determine collaboratively [with provincial and indigenous governments] which programs would be replaced, if any, and which would continue [such as provincial employment and training programs and counselling and rehabilitative services and supports] when the [Guaranteed Basic Income] is implemented. |
|||
Dalhousie University, Agri-Food Analytics Lab |
Consider launching a national nutrition coupon program fund specifically designed to support children and families who generally cannot afford healthy food. |
|||
Greener Village |
Create capacity to streamline funding channels and help charities create social enterprises to make them more sustainable. |
|||
Make Poverty History Manitoba |
[Transform the] social assistance system towards a basic livable income program [including on reserves]. |
|||
Nourish Nova Scotia |
Establish a national nutritious school meal program as a key element of the food policy for Canada. |
|||
Oxfam Canada |
Expand non-profit and publicly owned early learning and childcare with [additional funding] to the existing Infrastructure Fund. |
|||
Consumption Taxes and Excise Duties
Witness Name |
Witness Proposal |
Date of Appearance |
Aerospace Industries Association of Canada |
Exclude aircraft from the Luxury Items Tax Act. |
|
C.D. Howe Institute |
Fund new spending with a higher GST rate, rather than growth-inhibiting hikes in personal and corporate income taxes. |
|
Canadian Business Aviation Association |
Place a moratorium on the luxury tax on aircraft until additional consultation with industry has been completed. |
|
Canadian Chamber of Commerce |
Reconsider annual, automatic indexing of beer, wine, and spirits excise duties … [to] allow Parliament to consider market or operating environment changes when imposing new taxes. |
|
Canadian Federation of Independent Business |
Cap or eliminate the automatic escalator on the alcohol excise tax. |
|
Cannabis Council of Canada |
[Make] adjustments to the excise tax formula [for cannabis] and to costly matters about how the formula operates. |
|
Dalhousie University, Agri-Food Analytics Lab |
[Clarify the] misconception [that taxes apply exclusively to unhealthy grocery products.] |
|
Dalhousie University, Agri-Food Analytics Lab |
Eliminate all sales tax on groceries. |
|
Fédération des chambres de commerce du Québec |
[Implement measures to limit inflation, such as capping the automatic indexation of the alcohol excise tax.] |
Corporate and Business Taxation
Witness Name |
Witness Proposal |
Date of Appearance |
Abbotsford Chamber of Commerce |
Avoid imposing additional taxes on businesses. |
|
Alberta Federation of Labour |
Introduce an excess profits tax to discourage oligopolistic companies from using their market power to [increase] prices. |
|
Bennett Jones LLP |
Encourage the reinvestment of retained earnings [with larger investment tax credits]. |
|
C.D. Howe Institute |
Implement a temporary general investment tax credit, applicable to all investments in depreciable assets, including intangibles, at a rate of 5 percent, in effect from now until 2025 ... [followed by a reduction of] the corporate income tax rate from 15 percent to 13 percent. |
|
C.D. Howe Institute |
Establish an “IP Box” tax mechanism whereby income from patents and other intellectual property generated by activity in Canada would face a lower corporate tax rate. |
|
C.D. Howe Institute |
Tie the Small Business Deduction to the age of firms [so that, at] five-year intervals, the threshold level of capital assets that qualifies for the Small Business Deduction would rise and the level of the deduction fall, regardless of firm size, until the standard corporate tax rate is reached. |
|
C.D. Howe Institute |
Exempt from taxation capital gains realized on the sale of certain publicly traded small business shares. |
|
Canadian Chamber of Commerce |
Avoid imposing new taxes on the business sector. |
|
Canadian Chamber of Commerce |
Immediately stand still on [the] plan to enact the [digital services tax] and allow the [Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development] process to complete. |
|
Canadian Chamber of Commerce |
Defer implementation of Pillar 2 of the OECD tax deal in Canada. |
|
Canadian Chamber of Commerce |
Extend the Accelerated investment incentive. |
|
Canadian Chamber of Commerce |
Align [Scientific Research and Experimental Development] tax credit criteria with the [Income Tax Act]. |
|
Canadian Chamber of Commerce |
Eliminate or amend the tax on share buybacks. If enacted, it should protect Canadian SMEs by including an exemption threshold and be limited to instances when public companies acquire their own shares on the market for cancellation. |
|
Canadian Chamber of Commerce |
Maximize the impact of existing flow-through share tax credits. Relax the time limit for making qualifying expenditures, especially where regulatory delays prevent the company from spending in an allotted time frame, and make those costs eligible for the “look-back” rule. |
|
Canadian Chamber of Commerce |
Lower financing costs to put mines into production. Incorporating critical mineral pre-production costs into the new Critical Mineral Exploration Tax Credit would spur production. |
|
Canadian Federation of Independent Business |
Increase the small business deduction threshold ... and the passive income amount …, and index those thresholds to inflation going forward. |
|
Canadian Federation of Independent Business |
Lower the federal small business tax rate from 9% to 8%, at least for the next two years. |
|
Canadian Federation of Independent Business |
Delay the phaseout of the Accelerated Capital Cost Allowance ... measures by at least three years and make immediate expensing permanent. |
|
Canadian Federation of Independent Business |
Increase the Lifetime Capital Gains Exemption ... for all [small and medium enterprises] and expand it to include some assets. |
|
Canadian Federation of Independent Business |
Include tax incentives for sellers to offset costs and risks associated with Employee Ownership Trusts. |
|
Canadian Labour Congress |
[Introduce] a windfall profits tax on large food retailers and use the revenues to fund an extension of the grocery rebate. |
|
Canadian Worker Co-operative Federation |
Provide tax and other incentives to worker co-operatives in harmony with incentives provided to Employee Ownership Trusts. |
|
Centre for Future Work |
[Institute] incremental taxes on the profits of companies that have contributed to Canadian inflation through historically high profit margins… including [companies in] the oil and gas sector and supermarkets. |
|
Centre for Future Work |
[Continue and expand the two per cent] tax on share buybacks. |
|
Co-operative Housing Federation of British Columbia |
Refresh the current approach to taxation and government revenue generation to reduce the financial burden on non-profit and coop housing providers. |
|
Manitoba Chambers of Commerce |
Avoid imposing new business taxes that further drive away investment. |
|
Oxfam Canada |
Introduce a 15 per cent windfall tax for companies in all sectors that generate oversized profits due to crises. |
Education
Witness Name |
Witness Proposal |
Date of Appearance |
Assembly of First Nations |
[Make] investments based on real needs [to] close the educational attainment gap and address critical funding shortfalls in language, education transportation, and facilities. |
|
Assembly of First Nations |
[Make] investments to immediately build, replace, repair, and expand First Nations schools and teacherages and eliminate overcrowding. |
|
Assembly of First Nations |
[Make] investments [to support] students, institutions, community-based programming, and ongoing technical tables in advancing First Nations [Post-Secondary Education] models. |
|
Assembly of First Nations |
[Make] investments to expand adult education programming that meets the unique needs of First Nations adult learners. |
|
Ensure federal funding programs which incentivize green infrastructure, such as Energy and Natural Resources Canada’s ... proposed Green Building Strategy, be designed in a way that provides all post-secondary institutions, including Atlantic Canada’s universities, a fair chance to access funding. |
||
Direct the department to review and revise eligibility criteria for green infrastructure, energy efficiency and accessibility programs, ensuring Atlantic Canada’s universities are eligible for project funding which aligns with federal government policy goals. |
||
Instruct the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation ... to revise The National Housing Strategy to prioritize and establish a funding program to assist universities to build affordable, accessible on-and-off campus student housing and make post-secondary institutions eligible as a primary applicant for funding from the Housing Accelerator Fund. |
||
Canadian Association of University Teachers |
Boost granting council budgets for core programming as recommended by the Advisory Panel on the Federal Research Support System. |
|
Canadian Association of University Teachers |
Increase … both the number and value of graduate student scholarships and post-doctoral fellowships. |
|
Canadian Association of University Teachers |
Permanently double the value of the Canada Student Grant, and … establish a more equitable 50-50 funding model for grants and loans, moving away from the current 2:1 model of repayable loans versus grants. |
|
Canadian Association of University Teachers |
[Provide] funding … to improve data collection on equity, diversity and inclusion in post-secondary education, including the science and research workforce, the student experience, mental health, housing, international students, student debt and educational outcomes. |
|
Canadian Association of University Teachers |
Protect the mission of public post-secondary education by amending the Companies’ Creditors Arrangement Act and the Bankruptcy and Insolvency Act to exclude public post-secondary education institutions. |
|
Canadian Association of University Teachers |
Provide [funding] to close the gap in Indigenous post-secondary educational attainment and support, [including] increased support for the Post-Secondary Student Support Program as well as funding for the Inuit and Métis Post-Secondary Education Strategies. |
|
Colleges and Institutes Canada |
[Invest] in student housing. |
|
Colleges and Institutes Canada |
Invest … in a new Student Housing Loan and Grant Program, to be administered by the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation … [to enable] post-secondary institutions to obtain grants and loans to develop student housing projects [both new builds and projects to buy and repurpose existing buildings] ..., with additional supports for housing [for] students from vulnerable populations. |
|
Colleges and Institutes Canada |
Fund the International Education Strategy … adequately to strengthen Canada’s global education brand. |
|
Colleges and Institutes Canada |
Invest … to support student mental health at Canada’s post-secondary institutions. |
|
Nova Scotia Community College |
Leverage the network of public colleges we have in this country in order to continue to provide opportunities for Nova Scotians and all Canadians to get the skills they need. |
|
Public Service Alliance of Canada |
Commit to a national post-secondary framework that sets out robust and reliable funding and standards for all post-secondary education institutions in the country, ensuring affordable, accessible, quality public education for all, and decent working conditions for those employed by these institutions. |
|
Université de l’Ontario français |
Continue funding for the Université de l'Ontario français and its development. |
|
Université du Québec |
Increase … the annual value of Canada's graduate scholarships [by 50% with] … an annual adjustment based on inflation. |
|
Université du Québec |
[Double] the number of graduate student scholarships available through the three councils. |
|
Université du Québec |
[Increase] the granting councils' total base budgets … by at least 10% annually for five years. |
|
Université du Québec |
[Implement] measures to ensure greater funding equity across different disciplines. |
Employment and Labour
Witness Name |
Witness Proposal |
Date of Appearance |
Aerospace Industries Association of Canada |
Invest in and develop an aerospace workforce development plan which includes skilled labour programs, streamlined immigration processes, and youth engagement initiatives. |
|
Alliance of Canadian Cinema, Television and Radio Artists |
[Make employment insurance] available to self-employed performers. |
|
Business Council of Manitoba |
[Implement programs to attract workers to address the shortage of skilled trades labour and increase funding to provinces via the Labour Market Development Agreements.] |
|
Business Council of Manitoba |
[Invest] in programs that will increase workforce participation rates, including among female, northern and indigenous citizens [through measures such as] work-integrated learning provided through employers, tax credits to offset the costs of employer-led training, and strategically aligning university education funding with employer needs. |
|
Calgary Chamber of Commerce |
Consider measures that support credentialling and accreditation to ensure newcomers are eligible to work in in-demand fields upon their arrival. |
|
Calgary Chamber of Commerce |
Collaborate with Alberta-based businesses to understand their temporary foreign worker requirements, identifying program changes that will support business growth, such as increases to provincial nomination limits, extending the time workers are eligible to remain in Canada and evaluating options to reduce the cost of performing a Labour Market Impact Assessment. |
|
Canadian Chamber of Commerce |
Expand abilities to head off preventable threats to supply chains. … Government should consider providing new dispute resolution tools, including the authority to the federal cabinet to compel binding arbitration for the resolution of a labour dispute in sectors that are essential to Canada’s supply chains, including railways and ports. |
|
Canadian Chamber of Commerce |
Abandon introducing Anti-Replacement Worker Legislation. |
|
Canadian Chamber of Commerce |
Continue to decentralize the immigration selection process and support local solutions built by communities to address community workforce needs. Collaborate more closely with provincial, territorial and municipal governments, and with the private sector, to better understand labour market needs across the country. |
|
Canadian Chamber of Commerce |
Develop strategic, skills-based immigration programs aligned with regional labour needs. These … should be complemented by supports addressing barriers to hiring highly skilled foreign talent, enhancements to the Temporary Foreign Worker Program, and a pathway to permanent residency for agriculture and food workers. |
|
Canadian Chamber of Commerce |
Expedite and reduce the complexity of foreign qualification recognition. |
|
Canadian Federation of Independent Business |
Lower Employment Insurance … premiums for smaller employers. |
|
Canadian Federation of Independent Business |
Build on, or make permanent, recent initiatives that allow temporary immigrants already in Canada (e.g., students, super visa holders, accompanying dependents) to work or to work more hours. |
|
Canadian Federation of Independent Business |
Allow temporary immigrants already in Canada to work or work more. |
|
Canadian Federation of Independent Business |
Avoid creating disincentives to work when designing or introducing new programs (e.g., dental, disability benefits) or when modifying existing programs (e.g., [Employment Insurance]). |
|
Canadian Federation of Independent Business |
Enhance incentives to work for older individuals. |
|
Canadian Federation of Nurses Unions |
Introduce a tax credit for nurses and other health care professionals that incentivizes the retention of health care professionals and their return to the workforce. |
|
Canadian Federation of Nurses Unions |
Provide funding … through the Public Health Agency of Canada to tailor and pilot an Internet-delivered cognitive behavioural therapy program for nurses. |
|
Canadian Federation of Nurses Unions |
Work with the provinces and territories to set legislated limits on the consecutive hours of work for nurses. |
|
Canadian Federation of Nurses Unions |
Earmark … funding to establish a Health Workplace Violence Reduction Plan, that includes a national awareness campaign with a pan-Canadian framework for the prevention of violence in health care settings enshrined in federal legislation; appropriate training of prosecutors and public safety personnel in relevant legislation; [and] targeted funding to the provinces and territories to upgrade violence-prevention infrastructure and training. |
|
Canadian Federation of Nurses Unions |
Lead a national nursing retention strategy, in partnership with provincial and territorial governments, that advances proven retention, return and recruitment initiatives. |
|
Canadian Labour Congress |
Establish an annual government contribution of 20% of Employment Insurance program costs. |
|
Canadian Labour Congress |
Set a universal 360-hour/12-week qualifying threshold for regular and special benefits. |
|
Canadian Labour Congress |
Provide up to 50 weeks of regular [Employment Insurance benefits]. |
|
Canadian Labour Congress |
Raise the ceiling on insurable earnings and substantially increase the 55% benefit rate. |
|
Canadian Labour Congress |
End the 50-week restriction on combined special benefits and regular benefits, which disproportionately punishes women. |
|
Canadian Labour Congress |
Extend [Employment Insurance] access to all migrant workers. |
|
Canadian Labour Congress |
Introduce federal anti-scab legislation by the end of 2023. |
|
Canadian Labour Congress |
Reform the Temporary Foreign Worker Program and International Mobility Program by replacing tied work permits with open permits, establishing a pathway to permanent residency for all low-wage migrant workers who want to apply, and substitute permanent immigration in place of low-wage, temporary migration. |
|
Canadian Labour Congress |
Adopt the recommendations contained in the report of the expert panel on modernizing federal labour standards, including anti-reprisal protections for non-unionized workers taking collective action in the workplace, and [pilot] sectoral bargaining in the federally-regulated private-sector. |
|
Canadian Worker Co-operative Federation |
Support [the Canadian Worker Co-operative Federation]’s Building Community Resiliency program. |
|
Confédération des syndicats nationaux |
Reform and improve the employment insurance system. |
|
Confédération des syndicats nationaux |
[Give workers participating in] the Temporary Foreign Workers Program … the right to change employer. |
|
Construction Association of Prince Edward Island |
Address ongoing industry-wide labour shortages by modernizing the existing immigration policy and points system to better reflect the workforce needs of the Canadian economy. |
|
Fish Food and Allied Workers - Unifor |
Make urgent and necessary changes to the federal employment insurance program [for] over 30,000 seasonal workers [in Newfoundland and Labrador’s tourism and fishing industries who] are currently living through a financial crisis [as a result of] … a benefit crisis. |
|
Greater Charlottetown Area Chamber of Commerce |
Find a way to … collaborate and implement permanent solutions to seasonal employment challenges, such as programs or incentives to bridge into year-round employment. |
|
Greater Vancouver Board of Trade |
Continue to invest in talent, productivity, research and innovation while streamlining the processes for both interprovincial labour exchange and international skilled immigration. |
|
Hospitality Newfoundland and Labrador |
[Address the issue related to] the adjusted unemployment rate, [which] has put many seasonal workers in a position to be either short on qualifying weeks or short on qualifying hours. |
|
Manufacturiers et Exportateurs du Québec |
Align … economic immigration [with the needs of] … Quebec and Canadian manufacturers. |
|
Mouvement autonome et solidaire des sans-emploi |
Improving access to [Employment Insurance (EI) by establishing] the eligibility threshold at 350 hours or 13 weeks worked; [abolishing] total exclusions from EI; and [establishing] full coverage in the event of unemployment, regardless of maternity, paternity or parental benefits received. |
|
Mouvement autonome et solidaire des sans-emploi |
Improving access to [Employment Insurance by setting] a minimum floor of 35 weeks of benefits; and [setting] the benefit rate at a minimum of 70% calculated on the best 12 weeks worked. |
|
Mouvement autonome et solidaire des sans-emploi |
Protect the [Employment Insurance] fund. |
|
Mouvement autonome et solidaire des sans-emploi |
[Excluding] special benefits from [Employment Insurance]. |
|
Newfoundland and Labrador Public Sector Pensioners' Association |
[Adopt] an older worker strategy that promotes and supports older persons who wish to return to work or to continue to work beyond retirement while at the same time supporting employers to be successful in their line of business. |
|
Public Service Alliance of Canada |
Working with bargaining agents, amend the [Federal Public Sector Labour Relations Act] to bring it in line with measures and protections afforded under legislation in other sectors … [and include] language requiring employers to pay workers properly and on time. |
|
Public Service Alliance of Canada |
Increase [Employment Insurance] benefit rates for all recipients, sufficient to ensure a livable income, and increase eligibility across sectors and job classifications. |
|
Réseau FADOQ |
Extend the [Employment Insurance] benefit period to a maximum of 52 weeks for caregivers who temporarily quit their jobs to care for a family member. |
|
Réseau FADOQ |
Introduce a refundable career extension tax credit to allow experienced workers to keep working. |
|
Tourism Industry Association of Canada |
Extend the Economic Mobility Pathways Pilot program and maintain its focus on Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada’s training, education, experience and responsibilities categories 4 and 5. |
|
Tourism Industry Association of Canada |
Create a dedicated tourism sector stream with a permanent residency track under the Temporary Foreign Worker Program. |
|
Tourism Industry Association of Canada |
Fund the development of a dedicated workforce strategy for Canada’s Indigenous tourism industry. |
|
Tourism Industry Association of Canada |
Provide core funding to Tourism HR Canada to bolster strategic initiatives in support of tourism workforce growth. |
Energy
Witness Name |
Witness Proposal |
Date of Appearance |
Aerospace Industries Association of Canada |
Provide [an] actionable plan for Sustainable Aviation Fuel industry in Canada. |
|
Alberta Federation of Labour |
Look at the clean energy regulation as a platform for industrial policy and job creation, not simply as a mechanism for emission reduction. |
|
Bear Head Energy |
Provide more detail as to which assets are eligible for which tax credits, especially the necessary common infrastructure assets that aren’t specifically used in either hydrogen or ammonia production, as well as to how the carbon intensity calculations are to be made. |
|
Bear Head Energy |
Ensure that project sponsors have sufficient confidence in the availability of the investment tax credit, by having the carbon intensity calculation be a one-time test to be passed at the time of successful commissioning of the facilities. |
|
Calgary Chamber of Commerce |
Ensure affordability and reliability are central to policy development, particularly for the Clean Electricity Regulations |
|
Calgary Chamber of Commerce |
Advance the development of production tax credits for clean hydrogen, carbon capture, utilization, and storage and low-carbon fuel in Canada. |
|
Calgary Chamber of Commerce |
Develop incentives and policies to advance biofuel production, including sustainable aviation fuel. |
|
Canadian Gas Association |
Exempt [the electricity and natural gas sectors] from the proposed interest deductibility legislation. |
|
Canadian Gas Association |
Introduce [a] methane pyrolysis addition [to the hydrogen investment tax credit] and a biofuel investment tax credit on or before budget 2024. |
|
Centre for Future Work |
[Continue and expand] the made-in-Canada supports for clean-energy investments including in electric vehicles and battery plants in Canada. |
|
Confédération des syndicats nationaux |
Put an end to the financial support of the oil and gas industry as soon as possible. |
|
Econext |
Directly finance the evolution of Newfoundland and Labrador's electricity grid. |
|
Econext |
[Implement the investment tax credits for clean electricity, clean technology and clean hydrogen announced in Budget 2023 quickly] and consider how they can be further supported and leveraged. |
|
EverWind Fuels |
Implement the right tax initiatives and supports to ensure that Canada is the global leader in the quickly emerging renewable energy sector. |
|
Fairness Alberta |
[Make reasonable accommodation for Alberta regarding the objective to achieve a net-zero electrical grid by 2035]. |
|
Fairness Alberta |
[Make reasonable accommodation for the oil and gas sector regarding the oil and gas emission cap policy]. |
|
Green Budget Coalition |
[Implement measures to support the development of] a zero-emissions electricity grid based on renewables. |
|
Mark Purdon (as an Individual) |
Continue … the clean technology credits. |
|
Mark Purdon (as an Individual) |
Do more on the production of clean fuels and clean vehicles. |
|
Tourism Industry Association of Canada |
Fund and incentivize private investment in the domestic production of Sustainable Aviation Fuels and in new green solutions in the cruise ship industry. |
|
Vancouver Airport Authority |
Create the necessary financial and public policy supports to follow the Canadian Council for Sustainable Aviation Fuels road map. |
|
World Energy GH2 |
Ensure that Canada is a competitive jurisdiction for investments in clean hydrogen. |
|
World Energy GH2 |
Finalize investment tax credits for clean technologies and clean hydrogen [and make them] comprehensive in coverage and supplemented with added measures. |
|
World Energy GH2 |
Secure partnerships with other countries that are purchasing green energy. |
Federal Departments and Public Service
Witness Name |
Witness Proposal |
Date of Appearance |
||
Alliance of Canadian Cinema, Television and Radio Artists |
[Revise] the federal procurement policy … to forbid the use of scab labour, directly or indirectly. |
|||
Alliance of Canadian Cinema, Television and Radio Artists |
Amend federal government procurement policy to ensure that every producer undertaking audiovisual work … for the Government adheres to all relevant collective agreements. |
|||
Alliance of Canadian Cinema, Television and Radio Artists |
Ensure that all future advertising agencies selected as the federal government’s “Agency of Record,” or engaged otherwise, be signatory to [the Alliance of Canadian Cinema, Television and Radio Artists’] National Commercial Agreement. |
|||
C.D. Howe Institute |
Limit growth of federal employee numbers and payroll expense by freezing federal departmental operating budgets for wages and salaries at their 2023 levels for five years, while ensuring competitive compensation for federal employees. |
|||
C.D. Howe Institute |
Transition federal employees’ pension plans to shared-risk, shared-governance plans in which taxpayers bear less risk. |
|||
Canadian Chamber of Commerce |
Use public sector procurement to stimulate cybersecurity innovation in Canada. Make government technology procurement practices more agile, challenge-based, and outcome-driven. |
|||
Canadian Labour Congress |
Introduce a mandatory requirement for contractors to hire apprenticeships on all federal procurement and infrastructure projects. |
|||
Construction Association of Prince Edward Island |
Modernize [and improve] procurement processes. … [and require that they] be reviewed by the Auditor General, and [that the] industry ... be engaged to ensure that practices better balance risk sharing between public contracts and the private sector, reduce red tape and accelerate approvals for critical projects. |
|||
Council of Canadian Innovators |
Develop a procurement strategy for domestic small and medium-sized enterprises. |
|||
Electric Mobility Canada |
Create a dedicated Privy Council Office to coordinate [electric vehicle] responsibilities across departments and advise the Prime Minister on progress being made towards achieving the government’s electrification goals. |
|||
Electric Mobility Canada |
Work with leading Canadian [electric vehicle] organizations to establish experiential learning opportunities for elected officials and civil servants. |
|||
Electric Mobility Canada |
Starting now, [purchase only electric vehicles] unless an electric option does not yet exist to meet a specific need [and] set a hard target of at least 10% of all [federally] owned and occupied parking spaces being electrified by no later than 2025. |
|||
Electric Mobility Canada |
[Implement and promote] clean procurement policies instead of lowest bidder policies. |
|||
Manufacturiers et Exportateurs du Québec |
Review … procurement policies and eliminate the lowest bidder rule to enable [Canadian] businesses, which are competitive, to access public contracts. |
|||
MaRS Discovery District |
Increase government procurement of Canadian tech. |
|||
Municipality of Tantramar |
Streamline and simplify [all] federal funding applications for municipalities. |
|||
Public Service Alliance of Canada |
Find ways to not only hire and train [pay advisers] but to also retain them. |
|||
Public Service Alliance of Canada |
[Renew the] negotiated memorandum of agreement on damages [for Phoenix errors]. |
|||
Public Service Alliance of Canada |
[Launch a] national inquiry into why [the Phoenix pay] crisis happened, how it could have been prevented and … why … it has not yet been fixed. |
|||
Public Service Alliance of Canada |
[Develop a] system-wide staffing plan … that considers the needs of all who receive services, both within the government and in the public. |
|||
Public Service Alliance of Canada |
[Put in place] a system-wide analysis of staffing needs, developed with bargaining agents [before implementing any cuts to the federal public service]. |
|||
Public Service Alliance of Canada |
Put public safety officers employed by the federal government … on par with their counterparts who work in other jurisdictions. |
|||
Public Service Alliance of Canada |
Create a body within the federal public service to provide services currently provided by contracted private consultants. |
|||
Public Service Alliance of Canada |
Ensure recommendations of the current review of the Public Service Disclosure Protection Act … are adopted and that the act [is] amended accordingly. |
|||
Public Service Alliance of Canada |
Eliminate the backlog of Phoenix pay problems. |
|||
Public Service Alliance of Canada |
Make Phoenix general damages compensation non-taxable. |
|||
Public Service Alliance of Canada |
Pause overpayment recovery until all employees are paid what they are owed from Phoenix errors. |
|||
Public Service Alliance of Canada |
Settle the Black Class Action and Indigenous Class Action lawsuits in good faith by: … [publicly]apologizing to Black and Indigenous federal public service workers[,] … [providing] restitution to address the financial loss and racial trauma suffered [and] … [fulfilling] the requested remedies outlined in each lawsuit to address the systemic barriers facing Black and Indigenous workers. |
|||
Public Service Alliance of Canada |
Work to prevent Anti-Asian racism, Islamophobia, anti-Semitism, and all other forms of racism, hate, and discrimination in the federal public service by: … [implementing the Public Service Alliance of Canada’s recommendations, requiring] all managers and staff in the federal public service to participate in regular training on racism, hate, discrimination, and bias in the workplace, and all managers to demonstrate acquisition of defined competencies … [and providing] robust resources to protect employees from acts of discrimination, providing proper support when acts occur, and thoroughly investigating and remediating all such situations. |
|||
Public Service Alliance of Canada |
Repeal the changes to the Public Service Superannuation Act that raised the minimum, unreduced retirement age to sixty years old with thirty years of service or sixty-five years with two years of service, for anyone hired into the federal public service after January 1, 2013. |
|||
Université du Québec |
[Give federal departments] the budgets they need to support research that addresses the country's priorities, in co‑operation with universities. |
|||
Financial Institutions and Payment Systems
Witness Name |
Witness Proposal |
Date of Appearance |
Canadian Bankers Association |
Remove the financial institutions … tax and the Canada Recovery Dividend. |
|
Canadian Bankers Association |
Develop model financial consumer protection standards for un- or under-regulated financial service providers … [which should emulate relevant Financial Consumer Agency of Canada regulations to which Federally Regulated Financial Institutions must adhere] for provincial adoption, and work with provinces to adopt these standards. |
|
Canadian Bankers Association |
Ensure legislation [amending the anti-money laundering and anti-terrorist financing regime] progresses to allow resources and activity to be targeted at areas of highest risk, and [facilitate] collaboration and the lawful sharing of information between financial institutions, and from [the Financial Transactions and Reports Analysis Centre of Canada] and law enforcement to financial institutions. |
|
Council of Canadian Innovators |
Implement open banking with an independent governance structure. |
|
Fintechs Canada |
Amend the Canadian Payments Act … to give banks, credit unions, and regulated payment service providers equal access to Canada’s real-time payment systems. |
|
Fintechs Canada |
Support Payments Canada’s efforts to build a new real-time payment system. |
|
Fintechs Canada |
Publish a code of conduct that specifies the rules for data sharing in Canada’s financial sector, ensuring that all accredited participants in Canada’s open banking system … meet a common and transparent set of requirements and standards. |
|
Fintechs Canada |
Strengthen oversight and governance of Canada’s “open banking” system … by creating a fit-for-purpose entity to manage the administration of the system. |
|
Letko, Brosseau & Associates Inc. |
[Introduce regulations to require pension funds to set aside reserves for investments in foreign assets to encourage more investments in Canada]. |
|
Questrade Inc. |
Conduct a broad regulatory review of the functions and mandates of federally regulated financial institutions[’] … regulators and policymakers in relation to Canada’s mortgage ecosystem and delineate each regulator’s roles and responsibilities. |
|
Questrade Inc. |
Regarding new and proposed [mortgage-related] regulations, policies, and legislation, … work with industry stakeholders to identify where more clarification is needed by industry to avoid causing unintentional risk, confusion or harm and provide the relevant clarifications and amendments in a timely manner. |
|
Questrade Inc. |
Establish a permanent round table involving industry, government and regulatory representatives, [which] would conduct semi-annual reviews of Canada’s regulated mortgage ecosystem that would consider the impact of new regulations on lenders of all sizes [and] should also develop a framework to assess government proposals, ensuring that they address the unique needs of small and mid-size regulated financial institutions and avoid negative consequences. |
|
Questrade Inc. |
Allocate resources and establish a clear plan for the swift implementation of a comprehensive open finance strategy … [to] ensure that, by the end of 2025, Canadians can access a modernized, cost-efficient, interoperable, secure and principles-based open financial ecosystem, enhancing their financial futures. |
|
Questrade Inc. |
Design, promote and increase support for financial literacy programs delivered to Canadians through the Financial Consumer Agency of Canada. |
|
Wealthsimple Investment Inc. |
Enhance Canada’s payment infrastructure with an always-on real-time payment rail …, on-par with all other G7 nations, delivering a public utility that reduces late and overdraft fees, lessens reliance on payday lenders, facilitates economic growth and improves cash flow and money management for all. |
|
Wealthsimple Investment Inc. |
Mandate uniform pricing based on true cost of use for all direct participants in the [real-time payment rail], an essential ingredient to create conditions for viable and scalable innovation in financial services and increased choice for consumers. |
|
Wealthsimple Investment Inc. |
Engage with provincial and municipal governments and public agencies, to ensure they are prepared to take advantage of efficiencies to reconciliation, program delivery, tax remittance and loan repayments offered by the [real-time payment rail]. |
Foreign Policy
Witness Name |
Witness Proposal |
Date of Appearance |
Aerospace Industries Association of Canada |
Take a leadership role on [the North American Aerospace Defense Command] modernization and increase defence budgets to both meet NATO commitments and to propel [research and development] activity. |
|
Canadian Labour Congress |
Provide a targeted contribution in support of the United States government’s Multilateral Partnership for Organizing, Worker Empowerment, and Rights. |
|
Colleges and Institutes Canada |
Increase the Government of Canada’s spending on international assistance as well as its investments in technical education systems. |
|
Oxfam Canada |
Increase the international assistance envelope … above 2021-22 levels. |
|
Oxfam Canada |
Allocate [funding for] international assistance programming that advances the human rights of LGBTQ+ people internationally. |
|
Oxfam Canada |
Increase climate finance to low-income countries. |
|
Oxfam-Québec |
Increase the international aid envelope … above 2021-22 levels. |
|
Oxfam-Québec |
Increase climate change funding in low-income countries … while prioritizing projects designed by and for women and girls and ensuring that they are involved in decision-making. |
Health
Witness Name |
Witness Proposal |
Date of Appearance |
Assembly of First Nations |
Enhance the First Nations health workforce [to] bring care closer to home and ensure … care across the lifespan. |
|
Assembly of First Nations |
[Make] investments to ensure First Nations effectively lead the implementation of distinctions-based health legislation. |
|
Canadian Chamber of Commerce |
Ensure appropriate scope for National Pharmacare. Build on, rather than displace, the important role played by private payers and employers, while respecting the jurisdiction of provinces and territories. |
|
Canadian Chamber of Commerce |
Include the life sciences innovation ecosystem in deployment of the Pan-Canadian Health Data Strategy. Integrate real-world evidence to support decision making and accelerate adoption of innovation. |
|
Canadian Labour Congress |
Convene a care economy commission tasked with planning, coordinating, and overseeing the necessary investments, policy changes and regulatory reforms needed to systematically strengthen care work and care services in Canada. |
|
Canadian Labour Congress |
Work with provincial and territorial counterparts, unions, employers and regulators to develop a national strategy to ethically recruit, register and retain Internationally educated nurses and other health care professionals in the Canadian health care system. |
|
Canadian Labour Congress |
Accelerate current plans to introduce a national, public pharmacare program in Canada, realigning with implementation timelines contained in the Final Report of the Advisory Council on the Implementation of National Pharmacare in order to bring in full universal public pharmacare by 2027. |
|
Canadian Mental Health Association |
Create a “Care after the Call” fund for crisis prevention and response services in communities. |
|
Canadian Mental Health Association |
Create a fund for the caregiving sector. |
|
Cannabis Council of Canada |
[Offer] regulated formats that align with the cannabis consumer, especially in edibles, where the regulatory prohibition pushes people to consume untested products from the illicit market. |
|
Centre for Future Work |
Reduce cost pressures that emanate from the actions of private companies … [with] a national pharmacare program. |
|
Confédération des syndicats nationaux |
Bring in a public, universal pharmacare program, as proposed in the Hoskins report in June 2019. |
|
Fédération des chambres de commerce du Québec |
Ensure that the new pan-Canadian pharmacare program complements the existing system in Quebec to maintain [its] flexibility and universality. |
|
Friends of Medicare |
[Continue the expansion of the Canada Dental Benefit.] |
|
Friends of Medicare |
Move forward on universal single-payer public pharmacare. |
|
Municipality of Tantramar |
Develop a comprehensive national mental health strategy that addresses the interconnected issues of housing, homelessness and substance abuse while increasing mental health investments in communities through sustainable long-term funding. |
|
Oxfam Canada |
Establish a National Care Economy Commission. |
|
Réseau FADOQ |
Implement a dental insurance program for seniors or, in the absence of an agreement with the provinces and territories, provide eligible individuals with direct financial support for dental care. |
Housing
Witness Name |
Witness Proposal |
Date of Appearance |
Affordable Housing Association of Nova Scotia |
Provide resources, alongside the provincial and municipal government, to build affordable housing. |
|
Alberta Federation of Labour |
Ensure that ... [housing] projects [supported by federal initiatives] pay prevailing wages and provide opportunities for skilled trades apprenticeship. |
|
Assembly of First Nations |
[Make] investments to address overcrowding, unit replacement, new lot servicing, repair needs, on-reserve migration, and population growth. |
|
Association des professionnels de la construction et de l'habitation du Québec |
Provide better funding for the construction and renovation of social and affordable housing. |
|
Association des professionnels de la construction et de l'habitation du Québec |
Substantially increase the GST rebate for new housing. |
|
Association des professionnels de la construction et de l'habitation du Québec |
Extend the maximum amortization period for insured mortgages to 30 years. |
|
Association des professionnels de la construction et de l'habitation du Québec |
Relax the “stress test” when qualifying for a new loan, and eliminate it altogether for a renewal. |
|
Association des professionnels de la construction et de l'habitation du Québec |
Combine the terms and conditions of some [Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation] programs for funding new rental projects. |
|
Association des professionnels de la construction et de l'habitation du Québec |
Make the [Home Buyers’ Plan] or the [First Home Savings Account] intergenerational plans to allow parents to contribute to their child(ren)’s down payment and increase the maximum allowable withdrawals. |
|
Business Council of Manitoba |
Incentivize the private sector to increase new housing and multi-family project starts [with enhanced] incentive programs through [the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation], such as lower-rate financing or developer tax credits. |
|
Butler Mortgage Inc. |
[Find ways to] encourage provinces to bring an end to [short-term rental housing]. |
|
Butler Mortgage Inc. |
[Find ways to make] provincial and municipal approvals for new homes and new developments … [more] efficient … [and] quick. |
|
Butler Mortgage Inc. |
[Correct the] imbalance between ongoing property taxes in most municipalities and development fees. |
|
Butler Mortgage Inc. |
Change ... mortgagee rules to [prohibit buyers from obtaining] 100% financing for ae rental property. |
|
C.D. Howe Institute |
Phase out the tax credit for first-time homebuyers. |
|
Calgary Chamber of Commerce |
Advance affordable housing initiatives, including those outlined in the City of Calgary’s Housing and Affordability Task Force Recommendations, such as the creation of incentives for more affordable non-market and market housing units. |
|
Canadian Bankers Association |
[Pursue] greater policy coordination through a forum for relevant stakeholders, including federal, provincial, and municipal officials responsible for housing, infrastructure and immigration, as well as representatives of the construction industry and advocacy groups [to correct supply-demand imbalances generating the affordability crisis]. |
|
Canadian Labour Congress |
Allocate capital funding to the National Housing Co-investment Fund to build a minimum of 100,000 new units per year, in conjunction with provincial partners and other public contributions. |
|
Canadian Labour Congress |
Accelerate the rollout of the National Housing Strategy’s Federal Lands Initiative [and] introduce a dedicated five-year, Public Land Acquisition Fund to acquire additional land for the construction of non-market, affordable rental housing. |
|
Canadian Labour Congress |
[Create] a Housing Acquisition Fund in order to maintain supply of affordable housing for low- and modest-income households … [and] assist the community housing sector to acquire existing affordable rental buildings. |
|
Centre for Future Work |
Reduce cost pressures that emanate from the actions of private companies … [with] an ambitious expansion of affordable and non-market housing. |
|
City of London |
[Provide communities with] sustainable and predictable operating funds to support new and creative solutions [to address homelessness] … [through] an increase to the annual allocations for reaching home or a similar program. |
|
Co-operative Housing Federation of British Columbia |
Protect existing rental housing and tenant affordability by creating a federal acquisition fund based on [British Columbia’s] rental protection fund. |
|
Co-operative Housing Federation of British Columbia |
[Roll out] the federal co-op housing program that was promised in the March 2022 federal budget. |
|
Front d’action populaire en réaménagement urbain |
Reallocate all National Housing Strategy funds to significantly increase social housing in Quebec and Canada. |
|
Front d’action populaire en réaménagement urbain |
Provide new, recurring and predictable funding for the Rapid Housing Initiative. |
|
Front d’action populaire en réaménagement urbain |
Launch a rental building acquisition and renovation program with enough grants to guarantee the tenants’ return to and maintained occupancy of the premises regardless of income. |
|
Joseph Polito (as an individual) |
Partner with the provinces to build inexpensive campus residences on land owned by post-secondary institutions to free up off-campus residences. |
|
Joseph Polito (as an individual) |
Partner with the provinces and municipalities to build residences on their land. |
|
Joseph Polito (as an individual) |
Partner with provinces and municipalities to study inclusionary zones and the land tax. |
|
Joseph Polito (as an individual) |
Fund the expensive change in the property tax system [to base property taxes on land value]. |
|
Joseph Polito (as an individual) |
Work with the banking industry to be more conservative in its home appraisals. |
|
Joseph Polito (as an individual) |
[Slowly] change [the] capital gains tax rules for commercial real estate sales so the land value gains are taxed as ordinary income [in order to discourage land speculation and land-price inflation]. |
|
Joseph Polito (as an individual) |
Raise capital gains inclusions for real estate slowly until it reaches a point [at] which investors no longer look at land price inflation as a desirable investment strategy. |
|
Manitoba Home Builders' Association |
Assist the well-qualified first-time buyer … [by returning] to 30-year amortization periods for insured mortgages for new construction only. |
|
Manitoba Home Builders' Association |
Modify the stress test for both insured and uninsured mortgages to reduce the test rate on a declining basis for seven- and 10-year mortgage terms. |
|
Manitoba Home Builders' Association |
Update and index the thresholds for the GST new housing rebate. |
|
Manitoba Home Builders' Association |
Focus on innovation to bring down costs and scale up use first before regulating policy-driven code changes. |
|
Manitoba Home Builders' Association |
Adopt affordability as a core objective of the national building code and all related standards to ensure that we are building better, more efficient homes for the same price or less. |
|
Manitoba Home Builders' Association |
[Expand the scope of the GST/HST new housing rebate to include net-zero ready renovations.] |
|
Manufacturiers et Exportateurs du Québec |
Accelerate investment and cooperate with the provinces and municipalities so that [more housing can be quickly built across Quebec]. |
|
Metro Vancouver |
Work closely with Metro Vancouver Housing to support the delivery of the 10-Year Plan by contributing [financially], [committing in the form of] forgivable loans towards priority projects outside of the standard Co-Investment Fund application process … [and signing] a … memorandum of understanding [to deliver the portfolio of projects over the next 10 years]. |
|
MOSAIC |
Create a federal housing strategy connected to and supporting Canada's immigration strategy. |
|
MOSAIC |
Address the systemic barriers to housing faced by newcomers because of a lack of Canadian references, credit history, rental history and work experience. |
|
MOSAIC |
Promote [housing affordability] by continued federal leadership and increased funding that encourages provinces and municipalities to work together to increase the supply of affordable housing—specifically, rent geared to income housing. |
|
MOSAIC |
Encourage municipalities to require new residential developments to include affordable housing units dedicated to newcomers in the first three to five years of their stay in Canada. |
|
Municipalities Newfoundland and Labrador |
[Help Newfoundland and Labrador municipalities access funding programs for housing, by providing] capacity support … [through] a whole-of-province approach. |
|
Municipality of Tantramar |
[Scale up the Reaching Home program funding,] including its dedicated rural and remote stream, … and [make it] permanent. |
|
Municipality of Tantramar |
[Make the rapid housing initiative] a long-term program with predictable funding beyond 2024. |
|
Municipality of Tantramar |
Optimize and invest in critical national housing strategy programs. |
|
Norman Nahas (as an Individual) |
Continue to incentivize and promote entrepreneurialism and development. |
|
Questrade Inc. |
Allocate funding to … study and improve Canada’s housing and real estate data ecosystem … [and implement measures] to ensure real estate data transparency, open access and the promotion of sector innovation and competition. |
|
Tourism Industry Association of Canada |
Finance a cross-sectoral working group to evaluate housing targets and optimal funds required within tourism hubs and rural communities across Canada to support the sector’s talent attraction and retention efforts. |
|
Union des municipalités du Québec |
Invest massively in social and affordable housing to address the housing crisis, combat homelessness and counter the decline in housing starts. |
Immigration
Witness Name |
Witness Proposal |
Date of Appearance |
Abbotsford Chamber of Commerce |
Ensure that communities are equipped with the necessary funding from the government for infrastructure that will support the growth in population, as well as the services to ensure the success of newcomers within their chosen communities. |
|
Ensure Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada does not disproportionately reject visas for international students in Atlantic Canada. |
||
Ben Rabidoux (as an individual) |
Establish a provincial-level cap on international students and [dissuade] applications by raising student applicant visa fees or reducing the number of hours international students can work by issuing a fixed number of work permits for students each year. |
|
Business Council of Manitoba |
Reform … the immigration point system to ensure it closely aligns with actual employer labor needs. |
|
Business Council of Manitoba |
[Create] … a credential alignment tax credit for new Canadians pursuing Canadian equivalents to their foreign credentials. |
|
C.D. Howe Institute |
Emphasize the economic stream of immigration entering under the points system, and ensure that principal applicants become a larger share of that stream. |
|
Calgary Chamber of Commerce |
Increase support for immigrant settlement agencies across the country. |
|
Canadian Federation of Independent Business |
Simplify and streamline immigration processes to bring and keep more workers in Canada. |
|
Canadian Labour Congress |
Withdraw from the Canada-US Safe Third Country Agreement that puts refugee claimants’ lives at risk. |
|
Confédération des syndicats nationaux |
[End discrimination by the federal government against] candidates from francophone Africa for the International Student Program. |
|
Fédération des chambres de commerce du Québec |
Reinvest in North African embassies to reduce processing times for immigration applications from this area. |
|
Greater Charlottetown Area Chamber of Commerce |
Continue funding to immigration support services. |
|
Harvest Manitoba |
Consider additional support for settlement organizations, training organizations and food banks, which continue to allow Canada to successfully settle people from around the world. |
|
Manitoba Chambers of Commerce |
[Continue] to decentralize the immigration system and the selection process … [and collaborate] more closely with provincial, territorial and municipal governments and with the private sector to better understand labour market needs across the country. |
|
Manitoba Chambers of Commerce |
[Expedite] and [reduce] the complexity of the foreign qualification regulations. |
|
Manufacturiers et Exportateurs du Québec |
Shorten processing times and provide greater predictability for employers bringing in temporary foreign workers. |
|
Syria-Antigonish Families Embrace |
Continue the sponsorship agreement between Syria-Antigonish Families Embrace and Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada; and reduce barriers to refugees settling in Nova Scotia, such as how start-up costs and monthly allocations are tied to the income assistance rates in the province. |
Indigenous Peoples
Witness Name |
Witness Proposal |
Date of Appearance |
Assembly of First Nations |
[Invest in] First Nations-led engagement on laws, policies, processes, and mechanisms [that] support the implementation of self-determination and land rights. |
|
Assembly of First Nations |
[Make] investments [to] support interim and transformational approaches to accessing lands and resolving over 1300 [Additions to Reserve] applications. |
|
Assembly of First Nations |
[Create] a new Centre for the Resolution of Specific Claims to coordinate the co-development and joint implementation of reform to the way specific claims are resolved. |
|
Assembly of First Nations |
Invest [in] the formal recognition of First Nations and landless First Nations. |
|
Assembly of First Nations |
[Make] investments to build First Nations capacity and community-led [Sustainable Development Goal] implementation. |
|
Assembly of First Nations |
[Make] investments toward capacity building, First Nation-led initiatives, and ensuring Crown-led stewardship and governance respect inherent rights, Treaties, title, jurisdiction, and knowledge systems. |
|
Assembly of First Nations |
[Make] investments in First Nations-led climate action. |
|
Assembly of First Nations |
[Make] investments [to] enable First Nations to perform good governance and provide adequate services to their citizens no matter where they reside. |
|
Assembly of First Nations |
[Create] a new First Nation-led procurement organization [to] support First Nations businesses in securing procurement opportunities and meeting the federal 5% Indigenous procurement target. |
|
Assembly of First Nations |
[Provide] investments for First Nations engagement in the Cannabis Act review. |
|
Assembly of First Nations |
[Allocate sufficient] funding for First Nations-led processes … to ensure Canada’s laws, policies, and regulations meet the objectives of the UN Declaration [on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples]. |
|
Assembly of First Nations |
Support truth and commemoration … including [by undertaking] to ensure First Nations-led approaches in national commemoration activities and monuments and to repatriate artifacts and remains. |
|
Assembly of First Nations |
Acknowledge Indigenous customary laws and legal norms and resolve First Nation overrepresentation in the criminal justice system. |
|
Assembly of First Nations |
Strengthen First Nations mental wellness workforces to reduce burnout and increase access to holistic, culture-based, and intergenerational trauma-informed interventions. |
|
Assembly of First Nations |
Acknowledge [Canada’s] obligation to provide adequate, predictable and sustainable funding to close [socio-economic and infrastructure] gaps [faced by First Nations]. |
|
Assembly of First Nations |
Take the “necessary steps” and “effective measures” to meet the obligations of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Act. |
|
Assembly of First Nations |
Ensure that First Nations enjoy the same standard of living as non-indigenous Canadians and achieve equity and equality for all. |
|
Assembly of First Nations |
Bridge the digital divide for First Nations by meeting the minimum broadband standards outlined in Canada’s Federal Connectivity Strategy, High-speed Access for All. |
|
Calgary Chamber of Commerce |
Advance opportunities for Indigenous communities to buy ownership stakes in major projects, including and beyond resource development opportunities, through the Canada Infrastructure Bank and through the establishment of a federal Indigenous loan guarantee program. |
|
Canadian Chamber of Commerce |
Increase funding for Indigenous participation in natural resource development. |
|
Canadian Labour Congress |
Increase funding commitments for full implementation of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. |
|
Canadian Labour Congress |
Implement the recommendations of the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination with respect to its recent periodic reports on Canada, including reform of federal laws, policies and regulations to bring them into compliance with the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. |
|
Coalition for a Better Future |
Move more quickly, [with respect to loan guarantees for Indigenous people in large resource projects,] so that ... projects can go ahead and economic indigenous reconciliation can [become real]. |
|
Colleges and Institutes Canada |
Substantially increase the investment in the Post-Secondary Student Support Program, the University and College Entrance Preparation Program, and the Inuit and Métis Post-Secondary Education Strategies. |
|
Co-operative Housing Federation of British Columbia |
Fund the implementation of the urban, rural and northern indigenous housing strategy that's been advanced by National Indigenous Collaborative Housing. |
|
EverWind Fuels |
Acknowledge the importance of indigenous involvement and support partnerships in economic development renewables projects by allowing indigenous entities, not just taxable corporations, to fully participate in investment tax credits. |
|
Friends of Medicare |
Address barriers to access [health care for Indigenous people], … the backlog in health infrastructure in Indigenous communities, … the social determinants of health, and … the systematic racism … in [the] health system and … programs. |
|
Make Poverty History Manitoba |
[Act] on the Truth and Reconciliation Commission's call to action on missing and murdered indigenous women, girls and two-spirits, which calls for justice … [by making it] part of an overall poverty reduction legislation with bold targets for reducing and ending poverty in Manitoba and across Canada. |
|
Manitoba Chambers of Commerce |
[Increase] funding for indigenous participation in natural resource development … [and direct funding] to indigenous-led environmental assessments, training and skill development programs, and community consultation. |
|
Native Child and Family Services of Toronto |
Continue to provide Native Child and Family Services of Toronto with ongoing, renewable, annual funding to ensure that [its] programs and services can be delivered. |
|
Native Child and Family Services of Toronto |
Continue to invest in Jordan's principle so that First Nations children can get access to the medical and mental health services they need. |
|
Native Child and Family Services of Toronto |
[Consider an expansion or investments in Urban Programming for Indigenous Peoples] in ways that continue to allow agencies like Native Child and Family Services of Toronto to expand the service delivery that [they] provide. |
|
Spirit Foundation Financial Technology Inc. |
[Ensure] innovative products and ventures supporting indigenous communities [are] not … cut [when parties are looking for approval as part of a merger or corporate takeover]. |
Industry and Innovation
Witness Name |
Witness Proposal |
Date of Appearance |
|
Aerospace Industries Association of Canada |
Make needed changes to the Strategic Innovation Fund to increase access to funding support. |
||
Aerospace Industries Association of Canada |
Develop a long-term national aerospace industrial strategy that includes clear plans for defence and a dedicated strategy for space. |
||
Bennett Jones LLP |
[Support investment in intellectual property by small businesses by providing refundable tax incentives.] |
||
Business Council of Manitoba |
[Address] key areas of challenge for the biotechnology sector such as: [the] modernization of Canada’s regulatory environment; [the creation of globally competitive research and development] tax incentives …; and investing … in a Life Sciences Venture Capital Catalyst Initiative. |
||
Calgary Chamber of Commerce |
Establish the Canadian Innovation Corporation in Calgary. |
||
Calgary Chamber of Commerce |
Provide incentives that encourage Canadian venture capitalists to invest in Canadian companies by offering compelling financial supports that de-risk investments. |
||
Calgary Chamber of Commerce |
Support the creation of wet lab spaces across the country, providing opportunities for startups in a wide variety of industries to arrive at a proof of concept and viable product stage in the ecosystem in which they are based. |
||
Calgary Chamber of Commerce |
Explore the creation of a National Industrial Strategy, developed in partnership with businesses across Canada and economic sectors, to drive a cohesive approach to economic growth that leverages Canada’s traditional and emerging economic strengths. |
||
Calgary Chamber of Commerce |
Support research, development and innovation at post-secondaries across Canada through targeted funding supports to advance research or aid in the commercialization of ventures created within the post-secondary system. |
||
Canadian Chamber of Commerce |
[Expand eligibility for] the scientific research and experimental development tax incentives program [to] … publicly listed [small and medium enterprises]. |
||
Canadian Chamber of Commerce |
Modernize research and development programs. Help companies undertake high-risk research where near-term returns on investment and commercialization are absent |
||
Canadian Chamber of Commerce |
Ensure robust intellectual property protection of innovative products. |
||
Canadian Chamber of Commerce |
Prioritize the allocation of spectrum through measures such as increasing the quantity of spectrum available and subsidizing rural deployment. |
||
Canadian Chamber of Commerce |
Expand the Business Data Labs’ partnership with Statistics Canada by three years. |
||
Canadian Chamber of Commerce |
Launch life sciences innovation support programs. Incorporate the renewal of existing envelopes and add nimble streams encouraging companies to undertake higher-risk ventures. |
||
Canadian Chamber of Commerce |
Integrate the life sciences sector into global supply chains. |
||
Canadian Chamber of Commerce |
Encourage investment in currently uneconomic minerals. Where there is limited interest in private investment, the government should assess potential benefits of support for supply chain resiliency or strategic value, including cases in which global players have significant command of global supply or pricing dynamics. |
||
Canadian Federation of Independent Business |
Strengthen competition rules. |
||
Colleges and Institutes Canada |
Boost innovation by reviewing eligibility for Tri-Council and Canada Foundation for Innovation programming, with particular focus on expanding eligibility to Canadian colleges to access funding opportunities. |
||
Council of Canadian Innovators |
[Develop] a dedicated [artificial intelligence (AI)] commercialization and [intellectual property] strategy with a focus on scaling [Canada’s] domestic AI technology firms. |
||
Council of Canadian Innovators |
[Examine] the adverse consequences of [foreign direct investments] in the technology sector, particularly with regard to talent acquisition. |
||
Council of Canadian Innovators |
[Commit to] a comprehensive review of innovation programs to eliminate duplication and establish “freedom to operate” structures [including as part of the launch of the Canada innovation corporation]. |
||
Council of Canadian Innovators |
Review … all capital programs designed to support innovators … [to] prioritize grants over loans, augment funding thresholds where it makes sense, and mandate the formulation of strategic [intellectual property] plans. |
||
Council of Canadian Innovators |
Develop a national semiconductor strategy. |
||
Council of Canadian Innovators |
Convene a federal-provincial-territorial innovation summit. |
||
Council of Canadian Innovators |
Review and update capital programs to streamline access for businesses. |
||
Council of Canadian Innovators |
Deepen and improve capital pools. |
||
Edmonton Global |
[Ensure that incentive programs such as the Canada Growth Fund have] clear criteria so companies understand what [they] will do for them. |
||
Electric Mobility Canada |
Focus on attracting more investment to accelerate [electric vehicle] manufacturing and related industries in Canada. |
||
Electric Mobility Canada |
Focus … on accelerating technologies, research, development, and manufacturing associated with reducing the costs of vehicle batteries and thus vehicle costs per unit of range. |
||
Electric Mobility Canada |
Collaborate with the [United States] to build a North American [electric vehicle] industry and supply chain beyond the Inflation Reduction Act. |
||
Electric Mobility Canada |
Support electrification at mining locations across Canada and promote sustainable mining development and operations, particularly in relation to minerals and metals needed for the [zero-emission vehicle] supply chain in Canada and other jurisdictions. |
||
Fédération des chambres de commerce du Québec |
Promptly release the findings of the review of [the] scientific research and experimental development (SR&ED) tax incentive program, expand the program’s eligibility criteria to include incremental innovations and introduce an equipment modernization and cybersecurity … tax credit. |
||
Ian Lee (as an individual) |
Examine low productivity and protectionist policies in certain industries, such as airlines, telecom and agriculture, that exclude foreign competitors and drive up prices to much higher levels. |
||
Ian Lee (as an individual) |
Examine competition policy that currently allows industry consolidation for a handful of oligopolistic firms. |
||
Manufacturiers et Exportateurs du Québec |
Introduce a 10% investment tax credit, … extend the accelerated investment incentive[,] … extend and recapitalize the strategic innovation fund and … enhance and reform the scientific research and experimental development tax incentives program. |
||
MaRS Discovery District |
Increase and coordinate commercialization funding to enable regional organizations with a national platform to supercharge start-ups across the country. |
||
MaRS Discovery District |
[Increase] funding … to combat the heightened risk of [intellectual property] migration resulting from the scale of the [United States] CHIPS Act. |
||
MaRS Discovery District |
Create more independent wet lab space to enable the commercialization phase of [Canada’s] life sciences innovation. |
||
MaRS Discovery District |
Increase deep tech and climate [tech] early-stage funding. |
||
MaRS Discovery District |
Create incentive programs for the responsible adoption of Canadian AI technologies. |
||
Philip Cross (as an individual) |
Work on a culture shift and [change] the way we talk to [the business community] and foreign investors. |
||
Toronto Region Board of Trade |
Increase support for manufacturing capital development projects that stand to markedly increase the region's productivity and bolster industrial development opportunity. |
||
Toronto Region Board of Trade |
Lend greater support for the City of Toronto's capital projects and services which facilitate economic development for the broader region and nation. |
||
Toronto Region Board of Trade |
Ensure taxes on technology and digital services remain aligned with international precedent and encourage technology development, commercialization and adoption. |
||
Infrastructure
Witness Name |
Witness Proposal |
Date of Appearance |
Abbotsford Chamber of Commerce |
Build resilient and trade-enabling infrastructure, [including] flood mitigation infrastructure for the Fraser Valley … and also the expansion of regional trade corridors. |
|
Assembly of First Nations |
[Make] investments to meet basic community infrastructure needs, including buildings, ports and wharfs, transportation infrastructure, and utilities. |
|
Assembly of First Nations |
[Make] investments … across the drinking water supply chain to eliminate advisories. |
|
Assembly of First Nations |
[Make] investments … across the wastewater supply chain … to address chronic underfunding and mitigate threats to health and wellbeing due to inadequate sanitation. |
|
Business Council of Manitoba |
[Review and expand] the scope and criteria used by the Canada Infrastructure Bank … to ensure that all funding, including funding allocated in past budgets, can productively be used toward priorities or investments. |
|
Business Council of Manitoba |
[Reinvest] … airport rent payments toward infrastructure; [practice] ever-greening of lease terms to allow greater access to private capital and better planning of infrastructure investments; and [increase] … the amount of the Airport Capital Assistance Program funding with the inclusion of small commercial airports. |
|
Business Council of Manitoba |
[Implement] a long-term, integrated, National trade corridor strategy …, through collaboration between the Federal and Provincial governments and the private sector [and immediately recapitalize] … the proven National Trade Corridors program. |
|
C.D. Howe Institute |
Prioritize funding for infrastructure projects under direct federal control, such as investments in capacity and added security for marine, rail and air transportation, and military assets. |
|
Calgary Chamber of Commerce |
Unlock funding that advances infrastructure essential to sport, entertainment, arts and culture, tourism and transportation. |
|
Calgary Chamber of Commerce |
Invest in transportation infrastructure that connects Calgary’s airport with downtown and to other jurisdictions. |
|
Canadian Chamber of Commerce |
Commit to long-term investment through a Canada Trade Infrastructure Plan. |
|
Confédération des syndicats nationaux |
Improve funding for public transit [together with the other levels of government]. |
|
Construction Association of Prince Edward Island |
Advance the implementation of the national infrastructure assessment and develop, jointly with industry and all orders of government, a 25-year plan for infrastructure investment that includes housing and trade-enabling infrastructure. |
|
Équiterre |
Support public transit agencies by advancing ongoing support for public transit by two fiscal years and renewing the emergency operating funding of 2022. |
|
Fédération des chambres de commerce du Québec |
Immediately set aside funds to establish a high-speed, high-frequency rail connection between Quebec City, Montreal and Ontario, with an accelerated schedule of completion. |
|
Fédération des chambres de commerce du Québec |
Immediately confirm the allocation of increased federal funding to support expansion plans at the Port of Montréal (Contrecoeur terminal) and the Port of Saguenay (industrial port zone). |
|
Fédération des chambres de commerce du Québec |
Enhance the Airports Capital Assistance program to meet the urgent needs of Quebec’s airports. |
|
Fédération des chambres de commerce du Québec |
Review the high tariff rates charged to air carriers that use Canadian airports. |
|
Greater Vancouver Board of Trade |
Prioritize and expedite funding for infrastructure that supports population growth, including by beginning funding for the permanent public transit fund in 2023 instead of 2026; enhancing the federal funding in the investing in Canada infrastructure program for regional and local infrastructure; and continuing national trade corridors funding to support the movement of goods through greater Vancouver to the world. |
|
Manitoba Chambers of Commerce |
Build trade-enabling infrastructure … [and commit] to a long-term investment through a Canada trade infrastructure plan. |
|
Mark Purdon (as an Individual) |
Consider [researching] efforts to address transportation demand management. |
|
Mark Purdon (as an Individual) |
[Consider revising] the investing in Canada infrastructure program to have some more sophisticated requirements, maybe using … modelling tools [to estimate the impacts of transportation planning on greenhouse gas emissions]. |
|
Metro Vancouver |
Commit to equitable cost sharing of the Iona Island Wastewater Treatment Plant Projects with the Province of BC and Metro Vancouver. |
|
Municipalities Newfoundland and Labrador |
[Increase] … the Canada community-building fund with a 3.5% annual indexation. |
|
Municipalities Newfoundland and Labrador |
[Give funding] earmarked for municipalities … directly into their hands without bureaucratic red tape. |
|
Municipalities Newfoundland and Labrador |
[Dedicate funding to] Newfoundland and Labrador [municipalities’] ... waste-water infrastructure and compliance with the waste-water systems effluent regulations. |
|
Rural Municipalities of Alberta |
Allocate funding for a Canada-wide rural infrastructure funding program that supports investment in core infrastructure such as roads and bridges while also allowing rural communities to invest in innovative capital projects that work in a rural setting. |
|
Rural Municipalities of Alberta |
Develop an infrastructure fund which uses a rural definition more aligned with rural populations to reduce the competition for major grant funding. |
|
Rural Municipalities of Alberta |
Design all infrastructure funding with a rural lens, considering the capacity for grant writing and submissions, as well as the costs to the municipality to apply. |
|
Town of Stratford |
[Ensure that] credible estimates [are] done before the funding [for infrastructure construction] is approved … [by using] an indexation rate of about 3.5% … to cover [inflation] … between the time [that] the funding is approved … and [the time that] the bill is paid. |
|
Town of Stratford |
[Structure future infrastructure funding programs using] the “gas tax” model, where the federal money is provided directly to the municipality. |
|
Town of Stratford |
[Create] a new investing in Canada program or a similar program … to meet … infrastructure needs. |
|
Translink |
[Provide funding to] advance the first phase of transportation priorities with the “Access for Everyone” plan. |
|
Translink |
Accelerate the delivery of the Permanent Transit Fund by two years s from the original commitment of 2026–2027 to 2024–2025. |
|
Translink |
Permanently double the Canada Community-Building Fund and increase its annual escalator to 3.5% to better reflect construction cost inflation. |
|
Translink |
Launch a tri-partite national commission together with provinces, local governments and transit agencies to develop a new funding model for public transit that is more resilient and equitable by avoiding overreliance on regressive sources such as transit fares and property taxes. |
|
Union des municipalités du Québec |
Permanently double the funding allocated to the Canada Community-Building Fund for municipal infrastructure, and … act quickly to reach an agreement with the Government of Quebec to ensure that funding is transferred without any new conditions regarding how that funding will be used. |
|
Union des municipalités du Québec |
Modernize funding for municipal infrastructure projects by further extending the eligibility period for financial assistance programs and expanding the scope of financial assistance programs. |
|
Union des municipalités du Québec |
Reinvest in sports and recreational facilities. |
|
Union des municipalités du Québec |
Support Quebec’s transit agencies by providing additional funding for increased investment in asset maintenance. |
|
Union des municipalités du Québec |
Invest significantly in federal airport infrastructure in Quebec to reduce their major asset maintenance deficit. |
|
Union des municipalités du Québec |
Give … municipalities as much flexibility as possible [as part of support programs for infrastructure and shoreline erosion to] make investments based on their priorities. |
National Finances
Witness Name |
Witness Proposal |
Date of Appearance |
Alliance des femmes de la francophonie canadienne |
[Perform] a more comprehensive gender-based analysis [in the next budget] and ensure that the results are accessible to the entire population. |
|
Assembly of First Nations |
[Adopt] a new distinct approach for budget-setting … [aligned] with inherent rights [of First Nations], international treaties signed by the Crown, and respect for nation-to-nation relationships. |
|
Bennett Jones LLP |
[Balance the federal budget] over the next few years [in order] to allow for additional public investment and support for private investment, [and curtail] the growth of government-provided ... services or transfers or, alternatively, [increase] taxes on private consumption. |
|
Bennett Jones LLP |
[Increase] revenues in a way that doesn't undermine ... the incentives in the private sector to invest, [or] in the household sector to save, [such as through the GST]. |
|
Business Council of Canada |
Adopt a new and credible fiscal anchor, one that would limit debt service and costs to a maximum of 10% of revenue. |
|
Business Council of Canada |
Move ahead with a real, comprehensive program review. |
|
Business Council of Manitoba |
Control the levels of government debt and debt-servicing costs while maintaining a globally competitive tax structure. |
|
C.D. Howe Institute |
Surrender some of [the federal government’s] fiscal policy flexibility. |
|
C.D. Howe Institute |
[Enshrine] the following fiscal principles… in legislation: 1. Debt must be managed prudently, bearing in mind the issues of sustainability, economic stabilization and the impact of debt on present and future generations. 2. Gaps between prudent and actual or projected debt levels must be eliminated over a reasonable period of time, bearing in mind the state of the economy and the stance of monetary policy. |
|
C.D. Howe Institute |
[Amend] legislation … to enhance federal reporting requirements, such as the development of operational rules or anchors to guide policy and to monitor progress toward the fiscal objectives; [which] include a rolling multiyear ceiling on non-cyclical spending. |
|
C.D. Howe Institute |
Demonstrate that the risks to the long-term [economic] forecasts and projections have been prudently assessed. |
|
C.D. Howe Institute |
Prepare, at least every three years, a report analyzing the intergenerational impacts of fiscal policy and advising on changes to the fiscal framework that will promote intergenerational fairness [taking] into consideration the relevant economic, social, and demographic factors that affect the intergenerational distribution of fiscal burdens. |
|
C.D. Howe Institute |
[Task] the Parliamentary Budget Office ... [with assessing] and [offering] an opinion on the consistency of the fiscal framework with the fiscal principles … [using] a probabilistic approach to debt sustainability. |
|
C.D. Howe Institute |
[Task] the [Parliamentary Budget Officer] … with preparing reports on intergenerational fairness and investment. |
|
C.D. Howe Institute |
Present each year’s budget at least 30 days before the start of the fiscal year and present the Main Estimates at the same time. |
|
C.D. Howe Institute |
Present the summary statement of transactions in the first 15 pages of the budget. |
|
C.D. Howe Institute |
Prepare the Main Estimates so that parliamentarians can readily reconcile them with the fiscal plan in the budget. |
|
C.D. Howe Institute |
Table the Public Accounts no more than 90 days after the end of the fiscal year. |
|
C.D. Howe Institute |
Consolidate federal pension expenses and liabilities on a fair-value basis in the government’s statement of operations and statement of financial position, and use this presentation consistently in all presentations. |
|
C.D. Howe Institute |
Avoid unnecessary and unproductive expenses [such as pursuing] a national pharmacare program; … [increasing] the Canada Health Transfer; [cutting] Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation mortgage insurance premiums; [introducing] a basic income, [loosening] eligibility for [Employment Insurance (EI)] or [increasing] the share of earnings that EI covers; or [introducing] ad hoc measures to offset the impact of monetary restraint in Canada and abroad on economic activity. |
|
C.D. Howe Institute |
Continue to issue Real Return Bonds (RRBs) and improve the functioning of the RRB market by issuing bonds with various terms, rather than 30 years exclusively. |
|
Calgary Chamber of Commerce |
Minimize new investments until such a time that existing funding not yet utilized or allocated can be disbursed and spent. |
|
Calgary Chamber of Commerce |
[Ensure a better alignment of] fiscal and monetary policies …, recognizing the Bank of Canada must continue to operate from arm’s-length and independently from government. |
|
Canadian Association of University Teachers |
Create a national post-secondary education transfer …, separate from the Canada Social Transfer …, to implement [a national post-secondary education] strategy. |
|
Canadian Federation of Nurses Unions |
Include measures for the bilateral health agreements with provinces and territories that phase out private nursing agencies from provincial spending, ensuring federal investments aren’t wasted on private agency profits. |
|
Centre for Future Work |
[Recognize that] concern with the deficit is overshadowed by more pressing priorities, such as supporting Canadians through the cost of living crisis, the housing crisis, climate disasters and more. |
|
Centre for Future Work |
[Recognize that] claims [that] the federal deficit has been a significant cause of Canada's recent inflation are not credible. |
|
Colleges and Institutes Canada |
Commit to an increase of the Canada social transfer … accompanied by data[-sharing] agreements to ensure the money meant for the sector goes to providing Canadians with the high-quality education that prepares them to excel. |
|
Confédération des syndicats nationaux |
Implement policies that complement the Bank of Canada’s policies to slow down price growth [such as having] have more control over the cost of housing and the cost of rent; [investing] more in non-market housing; [lowering] the price of government services or offer them for free; [and increasing] transfers to low-income households. |
|
Fédération des chambres de commerce du Québec |
Submit a plan for balancing the budget within five years and subsequently pass balanced budget legislation to ensure that a balanced budget always follows a deficit budget. |
|
Friends of Medicare |
[Ensure] accountability for … public health care dollars and … enforce the Canada Health Act in provinces [that] are violating it. |
|
Ian Lee (as an individual) |
[Offset any] increases in … spending. |
|
Newfoundland and Labrador Public Sector Pensioners' Association |
[Attach an accountability mechanism to] health transfer funding allocated for particular programs. |
|
Vivek Dehejia (as an individual) |
[Examine both the choices that made Canada’s booming economy and the challenges that remain.] |
|
Vivek Dehejia (as an individual) |
[Implement] … tax cuts and spending cuts that [will] help … balance the government's books in a prudent manner while lifting the burden on average Canadians. |
|
Vivek Dehejia (as an individual) |
Hold the Bank of Canada accountable for its mandate to protect the value of [Canada’s] currency. |
People with Disabilities
Witness Name |
Witness Proposal |
Date of Appearance |
|
Assembly of First Nations |
[Make] investments to support [Assisted Living] program integrity and adjust for population growth and inflation. |
||
Assembly of First Nations |
Properly fund First Nations to meet the requirements for accommodating modern accessibility standards and address iniquities faced by persons with disabilities. |
||
Canadian Labour Congress |
Fully fund the new Canada Disability Benefit. |
||
Canadian Mental Health Association |
Adequately fund the Canada Disability Benefit. |
||
Harvest Manitoba |
Move swiftly to fund and implement the new Canada Disability Benefit with amounts that will raise people's incomes above the market basket measure for poverty, that will not be subject to clawbacks and that will be accessible to all Canadians who need it. |
||
Inclusion Canada |
Set aside adequate funds for the Canada Disability Benefit … beginning in 2024-25. |
||
Inclusion Canada |
Set a sufficiently high income threshold for the reduction of the [Canada Disability Benefit] at $35,000. |
||
Inclusion Canada |
[Ensure that] the [Canada Disability Benefit] … [goes] to people who receive Federal, First Nation, Provincial, or Territorial disability income security or disability benefits, ensuring nobody eligible loses out. |
||
Inclusion Canada |
Implement a three-year fiscal plan for the [Canada Disability Benefit], ensuring its careful planning and execution, with a firm commitment to deliver the benefit by 2024-25. |
||
Inclusion Canada |
Emphasize simplicity in benefit design, implementation, and identification of eligible individuals [of the Canada Disability Benefit], while challenging the narrative of overcomplication. |
||
Inclusion Canada |
Provide a top-up to what individuals receive on provincial and territorial disability monthly assistance … [for a] combined … minimum amount of $2,400 monthly. |
||
Inclusion Canada |
Include a strong and unequivocal statement [in the prebudget consultations report] on the necessity of adequately funding the Canada Disability Benefit. |
||
Réseau FADOQ |
Expand the caregiver tax credit by making it a refundable tax-free benefit. |
||
Personal Taxation
Witness Name |
Witness Proposal |
Date of Appearance |
Alliance of Canadian Cinema, Television and Radio Artists |
[Eliminate federal taxes on] the first $15,000 of professional artistic income. |
|
Alliance of Canadian Cinema, Television and Radio Artists |
Introduce a four-year back-averaging system for professional [artistic] income to ensure tax fairness. |
|
Business Council of Manitoba |
Facilitate employee ownership transitions … [for example by eliminating] the capital gains tax impact on owners. |
|
C.D. Howe Institute |
Introduce legislation to make strike pay taxable as ordinary income. |
|
C.D. Howe Institute |
Provide a more generous tax treatment of medical expenses by lowering the threshold to 1.5 percent of net income. |
|
C.D. Howe Institute |
Limit inflation’s fiscal burdens … [by indexing additional individual income] tax thresholds, benefit payments and … tax credits to the [consumer price index, including] … the federal government’s pension income credit and the maximum tuition credits that tax filers can transfer to spouses or parents; the Guaranteed Income Supplement for low-income seniors…; and the foreign employee exemption in the Canada-US tax treaty. |
|
C.D. Howe Institute |
Reduce the base amount of the age credit. |
|
C.D. Howe Institute |
Allow workers to average their income over many years, so that any single large-earning year would not lead to a disproportionate loss of fiscal benefits and higher tax payments. |
|
Canadian Worker Co-operative Federation |
Amend the Income Tax Act in order to create tax fairness for worker co-operatives. |
|
Oxfam Canada |
Introduce a permanent wealth tax on the richest Canadians. |
Regulatory Environment
Witness Name |
Witness Proposal |
Date of Appearance |
|
Aerospace Industries Association of Canada |
Provide resources to enhance Transport Canada’s aeronautical certification capacity. |
||
Aerospace Industries Association of Canada |
Ease processes for export permits and export controls and harmonize them with those of [Canada’s] allies. |
||
Business Council of Canada |
Outline a concrete plan on permitting reform by the end of this year. |
||
Business Council of Canada |
Provide clarity, certainty, and predictability on the [environmental impact assessment] rules for major projects. |
||
C.D. Howe Institute |
Renew the federal government’s commitment to ensuring that regulations achieve their objectives at the lowest practical cost to Canadians and to their businesses. |
||
Calgary Chamber of Commerce |
Reduce internal trade barriers such as licensing, transportation and labour mobility restrictions by collaborating with other orders of government, Chambers of Commerce, and other stakeholders on the development of a domestic trade accelerator initiative focused on increasing domestic trade volumes and reducing barriers to internal trade. |
||
Canadian Chamber of Commerce |
Add an economic and competitiveness mandate for regulators. |
||
Canadian Chamber of Commerce |
Ensure regulatory alignment. Government must look to ease the regulatory burden facing Canadian business, and work with industry and our international trading partners to ensure regulatory efficiency and alignment. |
||
Canadian Chamber of Commerce |
Improve regulatory agility in life sciences and medical review processes. Focus on flexible, timely licensing pathways that incorporate patient engagement, and launch an agile health procurement implementation process to pilot and deploy promising products and technologies increasing health system security and driving improved medical outcomes. |
||
Canadian Chamber of Commerce |
Reduce interprovincial trade barriers by establishing a public registry. |
||
Canadian Chamber of Commerce |
Accelerate regulatory modernization. |
||
Canadian Federation of Independent Business |
Reduce the overall administrative burden (red tape) on small businesses. |
||
Canadian Federation of Independent Business |
Champion the implementation of mutual recognition to remove interprovincial trade barriers. |
||
Canadian Federation of Independent Business |
[Update] the “one-for-one rule” … to include … rules … [found] in legislation, guidelines and policies [in addition to those found in the regulations]. |
||
Cannabis Council of Canada |
Eliminate … [the] special tax of 2.3% in the name of a regulatory fees charged by Health Canada [on cannabis products]. |
||
Edmonton Global |
Shift [the] thinking and … approach to policies and regulations to [enable investments, including energy transition projects]. |
||
Edmonton Global |
Grandfather projects that have started under … [specific approval and regulatory process to provide certainty and stability to investors]. |
||
Electric Mobility Canada |
Establish cross-Canadian guidance for electricity regulators to speed up deployment of charging infrastructure through an intergovernmental table to examine electrical system regulatory matters. |
||
Manitoba Chambers of Commerce |
Ease the regulatory burden facing Canadian businesses and work with industry and [Canada’s] international trading partners to ensure regulatory efficiency and alignment. |
||
Manitoba Chambers of Commerce |
Act to reduce interprovincial trade barriers by establishing a public registry … [to] raise awareness of barriers to interprovincial trade and encourage governments to justify or eliminate them. |
||
Manufacturiers et Exportateurs du Québec |
Provide [export assistance to] small and medium-sized manufacturing businesses … and more programs to mitigate the risks associated with their initial forays into international markets. |
||
Vivek Dehejia (as an individual) |
Pare back excessive government interference in the economy. |
||
Rural, Remote and Northern Regions
Witness Name |
Witness Proposal |
Date of Appearance |
Assembly of First Nations |
[Make investments to increase] access to affordable goods and services … for communities that are inaccessible by road. |
|
Calgary Chamber of Commerce |
Support rural and Indigenous communities seeking access to highspeed internet by investing in rural broadband. |
|
Public Service Alliance of Canada |
Create a national housing plan that recognizes that decent housing is a human right, starting with a commitment to the necessary resources to ensure all Northerners have access to affordable and adequate housing, by national standards and building codes, within five years. |
|
Rural Municipalities of Alberta |
Maintain commitment to fully fund the Universal Broadband Fund over the next several years. |
|
Rural Municipalities of Alberta |
Ensure broadband funding programs are designed in a way that addresses the urban-rural digital divide, acknowledging that rural areas are underfunded and underserved and will need a dedicated funding stream. |
|
Rural Municipalities of Alberta |
Evaluate Universal Broadband Fund applications to ensure funding is being directed to areas with the poorest connectivity levels, and to determine if additional funding for the fund is necessary to fill in the remaining gaps in broadband service. |
Safety and Security
Witness Name |
Witness Proposal |
Date of Appearance |
Alliance des femmes de la francophonie canadienne |
Invest an additional amount in the implementation of the National Action Plan to End Gender-Based Violence, and dedicate a specific envelope for francophone and Acadian women's organizations in minority settings. |
|
Assembly of First Nations |
[Provide] investments for each First Nation to establish and maintain formal and culturally relevant emergency management programs. |
|
Assembly of First Nations |
[Make] investments to implement the National Inquiry into [Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls] Calls for Justice. |
|
Assembly of First Nations |
[Make] investments [to] establish First Nations police agencies comparable to other policing agencies. |
|
Ben Rabidoux (as an individual) |
[Create a] direct income verification [mechanism] between lenders and the Canada Revenue Agency as a means to dissuade mortgage document fraud. |
|
Canadian Bankers Association |
Allocate additional funds to organizations like the … Canadian Centre for Cyber Security to increase individual cyber security awareness and cross-industry collaboration. |
|
Canadian Chamber of Commerce |
Protect critical infrastructure, supply chains and businesses from cyber threats. |
|
Canadian Chamber of Commerce |
Create a SME Cyber Defence Fund. |
|
Municipality of Tantramar |
Consult municipalities about decisions related to the future of [Royal Canadian Mounted Police] contract policing. |
|
Oxfam Canada |
Create an independent long-term Sustainability Fund for women’s and gender justice organizations in Canada. |
|
Rural Municipalities of Alberta |
Absorb all retroactive costs associated with implementation [of the new collective agreement with the Royal Canadian Mounted Police] and ensure that municipalities are consulted on measures that will impact local fiscal sustainability and the ability to maintain policing service levels. |
|
Rural Municipalities of Alberta |
Ensure all future contract negotiations [with the Royal Canadian Mounted Police] involve the provinces in the process as contract holders. |
Seniors and Retirement
Witness Name |
Witness Proposal |
Date of Appearance |
|
Alberta Federation of Labour |
Direct the Chief Actuary … to clearly outline the impact [that Alberta’s proposal to leave the Canada Pension Plan] would have on the retirement security of workers and retirees both in Alberta and the rest of the country. |
||
C.D. Howe Institute |
Raise the limit for contributions to defined-contribution pension plans and [Registered Retirement Savings Plans] by three percentage points of income per year – from the current 18 percent to 30 percent of earned income – over four years. |
||
C.D. Howe Institute |
Institute an exemption threshold for [Registered Retirement Income Fund (RRIF)] withdrawals under which minimum RRIF withdrawals would not apply; alternatively, institute an immediate one-percentage-point reduction of minimum RRIFs withdrawals mandated for each age, beginning with the 2023 taxation year. |
||
C.D. Howe Institute |
Allow purchases of annuities – including the advanced life deferred annuities introduced in the 2019 budget and variable payment life annuities … – within a [Tax-Free Savings Account]. |
||
C.D. Howe Institute |
Raise the age at which contributions to tax-deferred retirement saving schemes must end. |
||
C.D. Howe Institute |
Increase the age of eligibility for public pension benefits … to 66 in 2033, and then to 67 between 2048 and 2050. |
||
Fédération des chambres de commerce du Québec |
Implement more robust measures to raise the average age of retirement … [by launching] an awareness campaign to promote the retention and hiring of experienced workers[, developing] an action plan to promote the retention and hiring of experienced workers [, increasing] the income threshold for reducing the Guaranteed Income Supplement … [as well as reviewing] the restrictions, conditions and tax implications involved in converting [a Registered Retirement Savings Plan] to a [Registered Retirement Income Fund and excluding] employment income from the Old Age Security recovery calculation. |
||
Newfoundland and Labrador Public Sector Pensioners' Association |
[Implement measures to address challenges associated with] high cost of living and financial security. |
||
Newfoundland and Labrador Public Sector Pensioners' Association |
[Simplify the application process for the New Horizons for Seniors Program as] a lot of senior-based organizations that depend on that funding, and could use it, give up in the long run [due to the complexity of the process]. |
||
Réseau FADOQ |
Increase the Guaranteed Income Supplement for all seniors. |
||
Réseau FADOQ |
Increase Old Age Security benefits for seniors aged 65 to 74. |
||
Réseau FADOQ |
Review the method for indexing Old Age Security to account for wage growth in Canada. |
||
Skills Training
Witness Name |
Witness Proposal |
Date of Appearance |
Calgary Chamber of Commerce |
Fund local businesses to help employers create work-integrated learning opportunities and access emerging local talent. |
|
Canadian Chamber of Commerce |
Collaborate with provinces/territories to enable enhanced upskilling and reskilling to meet labour market needs. |
|
Canadian Labour Congress |
Establish a permanent “tripartite plus” advisory council to provide advice and recommendations to the minister with respect to skills development and labour-market policy. |
|
Canadian Labour Congress |
Prioritize broad access to vocational education, training and apprenticeship opportunities for all workers, with targeted incentives to increase opportunities for disadvantaged and underserved groups including women, Indigenous workers, youth, lower-skilled workers, workers with disabilities, newcomers to Canada and workers of colour. |
|
Canadian Labour Congress |
Ensure core funding for literacy organizations and invest in a new national workplace literacy program delivered in partnership with trade unions. |
|
Colleges and Institutes Canada |
Make [the global skills opportunity program] permanent and increase its funding envelope. |
|
Electric Mobility Canada |
Work with provinces to revamp the vehicle mechanic curriculum to prioritize [electric vehicles (EV)] by fast-tracking training for EV mechanics and provide them with more apprenticeship opportunities. |
|
Electric Mobility Canada |
Explore opportunities for the government to support employers, whether traditional industry or all-[electric vehicles (EV)], to train new employees who have not previously worked in the EV industry [and] maintain existing funding commitments for training and re-training. |
|
Fédération des chambres de commerce du Québec |
Promptly announce future investments under the Student Work Placement Program up to 2030. |
|
Fédération des chambres de commerce du Québec |
Replace the Canada Training Credit with a voluntary professional development savings plan. |
|
Greater Charlottetown Area Chamber of Commerce |
Find a way to … collaborate and implement permanent solutions to seasonal employment challenges, such as … re-skilling programs and support to aid in the transition to work. |
|
Manitoba Chambers of Commerce |
[Collaborate] with provinces and territories to enable enhancing skills and reskilling to meet labour market needs. |
|
Manitoba Home Builders' Association |
Continue all actions to promote careers in skilled trades, support training and provide financial supports to companies and individuals with respect to skilled workers. |
|
MOSAIC |
[Provide] targeted funding [to] allow employers and service organizations to work together to provide newcomers with occupation-specific training for in-demand jobs, hands-on workplace experience through internships and orientation to Canadian workplaces and mentorships. |
|
MOSAIC |
Create a permanent funding envelope for … industry-led training and job placement program responding to market needs. |
|
Oxfam Canada |
Invest in a strong workforce development strategy that explicitly recognizes care work and infrastructure under the Sustainable Jobs plan. |
Tax Reform and Compliance
Witness Name |
Witness Proposal |
Date of Appearance |
C.D. Howe Institute |
Amend the Income Tax Act to relieve more donations of private company shares and real estate from capital gains tax. |
|
Canadian Bankers Association |
Undertake a comprehensive review of Canada’s tax system with the objective to improve labour productivity, meet the needs of Canada’s evolving economy, ensure Canada can compete internationally, and recommit to tax neutrality. |
|
Canadian Bankers Association |
Build, implement and maintain a comprehensive single pan-Canadian beneficial ownership registry. |
|
Canadian Chamber of Commerce |
Launch a comprehensive independent review of the tax system … to make it simpler and more fair. |
|
Canadian Chamber of Commerce |
Eliminate notifiable and reportable transaction reporting rules that adversely affect compliant taxpayers. |
|
Canadian Chamber of Commerce |
Preserve the spirit of Bill C-208 provisions for family business transfers. |
|
Canadian Federation of Independent Business |
Simplify tax filing (e.g., updating GST/source deduction thresholds to account for inflation). |
|
Canadian Labour Congress |
Provide leadership and crack down on employee misclassification, which costs taxpayers and workers millions of dollars annually in payroll tax fraud. |
|
Canadian Labour Congress |
Follow Australia’s lead in enhancing tax transparency by introducing public country-by-country reporting requirements for multinational enterprises and their subsidiaries, including tax residency, ownership breakdown and entity type. |
|
Collectif Échec aux paradis fiscaux |
[Open the consultation process on the reform and modernization of Canada's transfer pricing rules and on the implementation of the global minimum tax to the Canadian public.] |
|
Collectif Échec aux paradis fiscaux |
Pay close attention to efforts aimed at strengthening the [United Nations’] role in [in international tax co‑operation.] |
|
Collectif Échec aux paradis fiscaux |
Increase the transparency and accountability of the Canada Revenue Agency. |
|
Collectif Échec aux paradis fiscaux |
Review how mandatory disclosure practices work. |
|
Collectif Échec aux paradis fiscaux |
Ensure that the [Canada Revenue Agency] works with Revenu Québec. |
|
Collectif Échec aux paradis fiscaux |
Establish a public registry of beneficial owners. |
|
Collectif Échec aux paradis fiscaux |
Call for an international financial registry. |
|
Collectif Échec aux paradis fiscaux |
Expand country-by-country reporting and make it public. |
|
Collectif Échec aux paradis fiscaux |
Criminalize aggressive tax avoidance and crack down on tax cheats and enablers. |
|
Collectif Échec aux paradis fiscaux |
Further regulate and restrict the use of voluntary disclosure. |
|
Collectif Échec aux paradis fiscaux |
Make the fight against tax havens a foreign policy priority for Canada. |
|
Collectif Échec aux paradis fiscaux |
Limit and regulate out-of-court settlements. |
|
Collectif Échec aux paradis fiscaux |
Get rid of double non-taxation agreements. |
|
Collectif Échec aux paradis fiscaux |
Tax multinational corporations appropriately. |
|
Collectif Échec aux paradis fiscaux |
Eliminate transfer pricing problems by introducing unitary taxation for corporations. |
|
Confédération des syndicats nationaux |
Set up a public registry of beneficial owners; apply an effective tax rate of at least 25% to multinationals and move forward with adopting its own tax on digital services, if necessary. |
|
Greater Vancouver Board of Trade |
Enhance productivity by prioritizing tax reform with the ultimate goal of simplifying and expediting regulatory review and approvals. |
|
Manitoba Chambers of Commerce |
[Launch] a comprehensive independent review of the tax system … [and] reform the tax system to make it simpler, more competitive with other countries and more fair. |
|
MOSAIC |
Reclassify 30% of all current project-based funding that is destined for charities and not-for-profits to be eligible as core funding. |
Temporary Support for Businesses
Witness Name |
Witness Proposal |
Date of Appearance |
Abbotsford Chamber of Commerce |
Extend the repayment deadline [of Canada Emergency Business Account loans to] the end of 2025. |
|
Calgary Chamber of Commerce |
Provide greater affordability support for small and medium-sized businesses. |
|
Calgary Chamber of Commerce |
Extend the repayment deadline of Canada Emergency Business Account loans to year-end 2025. |
|
Fédération des chambres de commerce du Québec |
Establish a … program to provide non-repayable contributions and/or interest-free loans specifically to Quebec [small and medium enterprises] affected by the summer 2023 forest fires. |
|
Fédération des chambres de commerce du Québec |
[Delay for at least a year the repayment of the Canada emergency business account.] |
|
Greater Charlottetown Area Chamber of Commerce |
Provide greater affordability supports specifically for small and medium-sized businesses. Provide greater affordability supports specifically for small and medium-sized businesses. |
|
Greater Charlottetown Area Chamber of Commerce |
[Further extend] the Canada emergency business account repayment deadline … [and extend] access to the forgivable portion for up to two years to the end of 2025. |
|
Hospitality Newfoundland and Labrador |
[Provide] greater flexibility … to allow [tourism] companies to address the massive financial implications of the COVID-19 pandemic. |
|
Manitoba Chambers of Commerce |
Extend the current [Canada Emergency Business Account] repayment deadline by … at least … one year, while maintaining access to the forgivable portion. |
|
Tourism Industry Association of Canada |
Adopt … measures to help tourism [small and medium enterprises] remain solvent [and alleviate their debt burden]. |
|
Tourism Industry Association of Canada |
Extend the zero-interest repayment deadline for the Canada Emergency Business Account loan to at least December 31, 2024, and similarly modify the Regional Relief and Recovery Fund and Highly Affected Sectors Credit Availability Program loans to allow more time and flexibility in repayment terms. |
Tourism
Witness Name |
Witness Proposal |
Date of Appearance |
Hospitality Newfoundland and Labrador |
Invest in [air] route development and infrastructure [in Newfoundland and Labrador]. |
|
Hospitality Newfoundland and Labrador |
[Immediately recapitalize] the Marine Atlantic fleet [and lower its cost-recovery rate so that it does not limit] … affordable rates. |
|
Tourism Industry Association of Canada |
Launch a dedicated Tourism Infrastructure Fund to support major capital projects in the sector. |
|
Tourism Industry Association of Canada |
Establish a tax credit program to incentivize investment in new tourism assets, and the upgrading of existing infrastructure. |
|
Tourism Industry Association of Canada |
Increase [Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada’s] capacity to help expedite temporary residence procedures and applications for international tourists and, specifically, dedicate additional funding to bolster the Special Events Program to ensure that international business event travellers do not face unnecessary processing delays. |
|
Tourism Industry Association of Canada |
Ensure there is [Canada Border Services Agency] port coverage in all small communities. |
|
Tourism Industry Association of Canada |
Increase the number of Cruise Ship Operations ports, guaranteed Cost Recovery Agreements, and [Canada Border Services Agency] staff for the processing of cruise ships and fund the digitization of the [Canada Border Services Agency’] cruise ship clearance procedures. |
|
Tourism Industry Association of Canada |
Dedicate meaningful investments in Canada’s privately-owned motor coach industry via federal transit funding programs. |
Transition to Net-Zero
Witness Name |
Witness Proposal |
Date of Appearance |
Alberta Federation of Labour |
[Do not allow corporations to] get around requirements related to prevailing wages and apprenticeships [attached to investment tax credits supporting the energy transition announced in Budget 2023]. |
|
Alberta Federation of Labour |
Pass the [proposed] Canadian Sustainable Jobs Act so that workers have a seat at the table when shaping industrial policy. |
|
Alberta Federation of Labour |
Look at … strategies [in the United States] to speed up the approval of the diversification projects and their announcement of a youth climate corps. |
|
Aluminium Association of Canada |
Include all aluminium sector decarbonization technologies to [the] lists of tax credit eligible technologies … [including equipment] intended to produce aluminium by a process that eliminates substantially all of the greenhouse gas resulting directly from the electrolysis of alumina … [and activities] related to clean technology manufacturing in the aluminium value change. |
|
Association des professionnels de la construction et de l'habitation du Québec |
Allow a maximum 35-year amortization period for mortgages to purchase a new home that is certified energy efficient. |
|
Association des professionnels de la construction et de l'habitation du Québec |
Expand the scope of certain programs intended to boost energy-efficient retrofits to also include large rental properties. |
|
Business Council of Manitoba |
[Adjust the federal government incentive programs for greenhouse gas reductions] for the relative proportions of hydro-power to ensure provinces like Manitoba are able to participate on a level-playing field. |
|
Business Council of Manitoba |
Continue to … [refine the Canada Infrastructure Bank’s programs] to ensure the funds available are more fully utilized to facilitate investments in green building technologies. |
|
Calgary Chamber of Commerce |
Provide clarity on carbon capture utilization and storage incentives, and other investment tax credits. |
|
Calgary Chamber of Commerce |
Advance an economy-wide, sector agnostic, national [greenhouse gas] offset system based on consultations with industry, provincial and territorial governments, and Indigenous partners. |
|
Calgary Chamber of Commerce |
Establish and implement carbon contracts for differences. |
|
Canadian Bankers Association |
Promote a national or harmonized process to meet Canada’s climate goals while also enhancing productivity and economic growth. |
|
Canadian Business Aviation Association |
Make the requisite investments in the sustainability of the aviation sector, including the deployment of financial incentives that encourage the purchase and environmental modernization of business aircraft, materials, and services; and the creation of incentives to stimulate wider production and use of sustainable aviation fuel. |
|
Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives |
[Implement] a whole-of-economy strategy that starts from the end point, … an economy free of fossil fuels by 2050, and works backwards. |
|
Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives |
[Provide] direct public funding—not financing and not corporate incentives—in … key sectors, including … to decarbonize and expand the electricity grid … and … for energy efficiency retrofits of homes and buildings. |
|
Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives |
[Instate] new public interest mandates for both the Canada Infrastructure Bank and the Canada growth fund [so that instead] of trying to de-risk private investment, … [they offer] funding and low-cost loans to governments and to communities, especially those most affected by the transition to net zero. |
|
Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives |
[Allocate annual funding] for more aggressive workforce development policies … [to] enable [Canada] to build the green economy ... [and] help to ease the transition away from fossil fuels for affected workers in an equitable way. |
|
Canadian Chamber of Commerce |
Develop a standard definition for “net-zero aligned investment.” Include emission reduction estimates alongside policies, and support the work of the Sustainable Finance Action Council, particularly its transition taxonomy project. |
|
Canadian Labour Congress |
Include job-quality requirements in … decarbonization investments to ensure low carbon jobs are safe, well-paid, and afford workers a say at work through access to a union. |
|
Canadian Labour Congress |
[Improve the proposed Canadian Sustainable Jobs Act] before passage, including ensuring a strong voice for workers through their unions in the Sustainable Jobs Partnership Council. |
|
Canadian Labour Congress |
[Expand the Futures Fund] to cover all of Canada’s provinces and territories and [increase its budget]. |
|
Coalition for a Better Future |
[Ensure businesses have certainty to prioritize and to plan by releasing a legislative framework for carbon capture and streamlining regulatory approval procedures.] |
|
Confédération des syndicats nationaux |
Show leadership in the development of a green economy. |
|
Construction Association of Prince Edward Island |
[Consult] construction industry [stakeholders in the planning of industry-related policies and programs to advance] the transition to a net-zero economy, … [including] the restrictive labour conditions attached to [the clean technologies and clean hydrogen tax credits]. |
|
Econext |
[Ensure that major] investments into climate action … [are] done by direct engagement with stakeholders in Newfoundland and Labrador. |
|
Electric Mobility Canada |
Align … auto tailpipe emission standards with the toughest standards in North America for light-duty vehicles and medium- and heavy-duty vehicles. |
|
Electric Mobility Canada |
Modernize the legislative and regulatory framework to facilitate the transportation of used and end-of-life batteries and to encourage battery recovery, repurposing, remanufacturing, and recycling in North America. |
|
Electric Mobility Canada |
Work with the National Capital Commission and the City of Ottawa to establish a Zero Emission Zone in Ottawa. |
|
Équiterre |
Modernize existing programs (iZEV, Green Levy, ZETF and ZEVIP) … [and expand] the iZEV program … by providing a … purchase subsidy. |
|
Équiterre |
Begin the transition of the heavy-vehicle subsector with campaigns to raise awareness and on financing opportunities for electric school buses. |
|
Équiterre |
Limit the production of residual materials by creating a home appliances and electronics repair fund … and a reusable container and packaging fund. |
|
Équiterre |
Foster a net-zero economy by investing in workforce … through tax credits covering tuition for sustainable careers … by increasing funding for “skills in a net-zero economy” … by investing in the creation of a new program to support regional planning and fund initiatives that create sustainable jobs …, and by investing in innovation to decarbonize the industrial sector … and in the economic diversification of communities affected by the transition. |
|
Équiterre |
Show leadership by accelerating progress on the Greening Government Strategy. |
|
Équiterre |
Create more eco-taxes and binding regulations. |
|
Fédération des chambres de commerce du Québec |
Make the fiscal and financial incentives provided in Canada’s Plan for a Clean Economy contingent on flexible Canadian or … free trade partner… content criteria. |
|
Green Budget Coalition |
[Support a] renovation wave for climate resilient homes and affordable homes [by expanding and coordinating] existing investments and programs to centrally deliver home upgrades to ensure impactful investments that integrate health, affordability, and adaptation targets, and accommodate the unique needs of Indigenous, northern and remote communities. |
|
Green Budget Coalition |
Scale up investment in transition planning, job creation, and worker supports to ensure workers and communities have a smooth transition to a low-carbon economy. |
|
Manufacturiers et Exportateurs du Québec |
[Offer] more support and predictability [to Quebec and Canadian manufacturers], as well as key measures [to decarbonize activities]. |
|
Manufacturiers et Exportateurs du Québec |
Expedite implementation of the five tax credits previously announced and ensure that [they] are predictable and more broadly based to stimulate investment. |
|
Manufacturiers et Exportateurs du Québec |
Raise awareness and conduct more audits and diagnostics to [allow small and medium enterprises (SMEs) to] measure [their] footprint and … establish targeted programs for SMEs to mitigate the risks associated with the investments that have to be made [to reach carbon neutrality]. |
|
Metro Vancouver |
Work with Metro Vancouver to implement the actions set out in Metro Vancouver’s Climate 2050 strategy and Clean Air Plan in order to achieve [the] shared commitment to emissions reductions targets by 2050. |
|
Oxfam Canada |
Provide targeted funding to support people and groups who have been historically underrepresented in Canada’s energy sectors … to find green jobs in the renewable energy or energy conservation sectors. |
|
Oxfam-Québec |
Stop financing polluting projects. |
|
Oxfam-Québec |
[Pass legislation] to ensure that Canadian banks have plans, targets and practices consistent with Canada's climate commitments and the objectives of the Paris Agreement that include measures to reduce financed emissions. |
|
Prince Edward Island Fishermen's Association |
[Allocate funding on a cost-sharing basis] to enable fishing vessels to transition to emissions-reducing technologies. |
|
Town of Stratford |
[Clarify the application requirements for] funding to support … environmental sustainability [initiatives] to [help municipalities] get the funding [they] need in order [to meet net-zero emissions targets]. |
|
World Energy GH2 |
Supplement the role of the Canada Growth Fund [and] contemplate additional measures to compete with the [United States] Inflation Reduction Act’s generous subsidies. |
|
World Energy GH2 |
Establish dedicated funding for green hydrogen contracts for difference. |
|
World Energy GH2 |
Ensure availability of other government programming, such as the Strategic Innovation Fund, the Canada Infrastructure Bank and the Canada Growth Fund [to close] the competitive gap [with the United States]. |
Transportation
Witness Name |
Witness Proposal |
Date of Appearance |
Calgary Chamber of Commerce |
Advance the development of the National Supply Chain Strategy. |
|
Canadian Business Aviation Association |
Allocate funds and resources towards improving the infrastructure and accessibility of regional airports and air traffic control systems. |
|
Canadian Business Aviation Association |
Work closely with relevant government agencies … to simplify and streamline the customs and immigration procedures. |
|
Canadian Federation of Agriculture |
[Extend the interswitching pilot past the current 18-month period and expand the distance beyond 160km.] |
|
Electric Mobility Canada |
Continue purchase incentives for new passenger [electric vehicles (EVs)], but focus on the EV-only range to include more long-range electric cars, SUVs and pickup trucks. |
|
Electric Mobility Canada |
Introduce a fiscally neutral feebate system to have the most polluting vehicles fund [electric vehicle] incentives for new vehicles. |
|
Electric Mobility Canada |
Make [electric vehicles] more accessible for low- and modest-income households through a dedicated program. |
|
Electric Mobility Canada |
Make it easier for taxis, car share or ride-share to go electric by removing the Incentives for Zero-Emission Vehicles Program cap for fleets. |
|
Electric Mobility Canada |
Support consumer [electric vehicle] education and industry sales force training. |
|
Electric Mobility Canada |
Establish a green scrappage program that gets fossil fuel vehicles off the road, and replace them with zero-emission modes of transportation, whether battery electric or hydrogen. |
|
Electric Mobility Canada |
Adopt an ambitious [zero-emission vehicle] sales transportation regulation program to make sure that all Canadians have access to a growing supply and variety of [electric vehicle] models. |
|
Electric Mobility Canada |
Pursue purchasing incentives for [medium- and heavy-duty vehicles] and work with the provinces to match funding. |
|
Electric Mobility Canada |
Pursue funding for electric transit buses and pursue long-term funding for municipalities and transit agencies to convert their fleet to electric. |
|
Electric Mobility Canada |
Make the electric school bus incentive program simpler and more efficient so companies can apply and get the funding they need for transition. |
|
Electric Mobility Canada |
Increase funding for the integration of electric trucks into commercial fleets. |
|
Electric Mobility Canada |
Implement a phase-out of fossil fuel vehicles at federally regulated properties such as ports, rail yards, parks and airports. |
|
Electric Mobility Canada |
Make electric off-road vehicles more affordable … by introducing a federal rebate, as Yukon, Vermont and other jurisdictions did. |
|
Electric Mobility Canada |
Implement a [zero-emission vehicle] sales mandate for off-road by 2035, similar to New Jersey, New York and California. |
|
Electric Mobility Canada |
Work with regional and provincial ferry agencies, as well as Crown corporations … to launch a program to support the electrification of ferry services across Canada. |
|
Electric Mobility Canada |
Set and fund targets for [electric vehicle] charging stations or fuelling stations for hydrogen for all types of vehicles in every Canadian region. |
|
Electric Mobility Canada |
Make one million condominiums and apartments [electric vehicle (EV)]-ready over four years, add EV charging requirements to national building codes [and] support right-to-charge rules for residents of multi-unit residences. |
|
Electric Mobility Canada |
Accelerate rural, remote and off-road access to charging, [in accordance with the] report from the Auditor General. |
|
Electric Mobility Canada |
Establish charging hubs on underused government-owned lands, particularly in high-density urban areas, open to all charging operators without exclusivity, and accessible to the public. |
|
Electric Mobility Canada |
Support charging investments by providing time-limited rebates for large-scale charging investments. |
|
Electric Mobility Canada |
[Change] home energy retrofit programs [to] support the installation of newer, more efficient electrical panels and [electric vehicle] charging infrastructure, including panel size and smart panel upgrades. |
|
Electric Mobility Canada |
Establish a dedicated grant-based incentive program to support the deployment of large-scale [electric vehicle] charging installations and electrical service upgrades, to facilitate the medium- and heavy-duty segments. |
|
Electric Mobility Canada |
Adopt a federal [zero-emission vehicle (ZEV)] sales regulation to ensure that ZEV supply is available in provinces without their own regulation of equal or greater stringency, relative to the federal program. |
|
Electric Mobility Canada |
Adopt a sales regulation to achieve 100% Zero-Emission bus and truck sales by 2040 at the latest aligned with the most ambitious targets in North America with interim milestones along the way. |
|
Electric Mobility Canada |
Enact legislation requiring the federal government to establish an [electric vehicle (EV)] strategy, and maintain and regularly update an EV action plan through 2035. |
|
Electric Mobility Canada |
[Address barriers to access to electric vehicles for rural, northern and Indigenous communities] to allow them a meaningful opportunity to drive electric. |
|
Keystone Agricultural Producers |
Build on budget 2023's extended interswitching pilot by further expanding the distance beyond 160 kilometres and extending the pilot past the current 18-month period. |
|
Tourism Industry Association of Canada |
Provide airports with the capital to expand, update, and upgrade infrastructure by reinvesting federal rents into capital projects. |
|
Vancouver Airport Authority |
Invest in government modernization initiatives and services that will improve the passenger experience through Canadian airports. |
|
Vancouver Airport Authority |
Expand the current verified traveller program to be a true domestic trusted traveller program … similar to … the TSA PreCheck program [in the United States]. |
|
Vancouver Airport Authority |
Expedite the implementation of an end-to-end digital traveller journey for all people who wish to utilize digital processes. |