US EditionBudget 2025 by the numbers: Key figures in Liberals’ spending plan
The budget includes up to 40,000 public sector job cuts, freezes Indigenous funding, and invests $334.3 million in quantum and AI technologies, plus $184.9 million for veterans.
- Finance Minister François-Philippe Champagne introduced the 2025 federal budget, the first under Prime Minister Mark Carney, framing it as offering generational investments with billions in new spending.
- Facing rising liabilities, the budget warns Indigenous claims and litigation settlements ballooned over the past decade and the Carney government freezes annual base funding, cutting two per cent for Indigenous Services.
- The budget allots $89.7 billion including $73 billion defence package with $30 billion for capital investments, plus $334.3 million for quantum ecosystem and $5 billion trade corridor.
- The government faces opposition as most government departments must find 15 per cent cuts, with plans to eliminate up to 40,000 public service workers and no guarantee the budget will pass under Prime Minister Mark Carney's minority government.
- Among notable policy shifts, the budget directs $184.9 million over four years to Veterans Affairs Canada, lowers medical cannabis reimbursement to $6.00 per gram, and ends the luxury tax on planes and boats.
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Some key highlights from the Liberal government’s 2025 federal budget
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