This plan will aim to reduce fees for parents with children in regulated childcare by 50 percent on average, by 2022, with a goal of reaching $10 per day on average by 2026, everywhere outside of Quebec. This is a plan to drive economic growth, a plan to increase women’s participation in the workforce, and a plan to offer each child in Canada the best start in life. Budget 2021 is a plan that puts the government on track to meet its commitment to create one million jobs by the end of the year.īudget 2021 makes a generational investment to build a Canada-wide early learning and child care system. It will support almost 500,000 new training and work opportunities including 215,000 opportunities for youth support businesses in our most affected sectors such as tourism and arts and culture and accelerate investment in digital transformation of small and medium-sized businesses. It proposes to extend business and income support measures through to the fall and to make investments to create jobs and help businesses across the economy come roaring back. Budget 2021 invests in Canada’s bio-manufacturing and life sciences sector to rebuild domestic vaccine manufacturing capacity, and has a plan to put in place national standards for long-term care and mental health services.īudget 2021 is a plan to bridge Canadians and Canadian businesses through the crisis and towards a robust recovery. Vaccine rollout is underway across Canada, with federal government support in every province and territory. The Government of Canada’s top priority remains protecting Canadians’ health and safety, particularly during this third, aggressive wave of the virus and its variants. We welcome the steps taken to support the Rapid Housing Initiative, but to meet our shared goal of ending chronic homelessness much more will need to be done.” Budget 2021 Highlights “The measures here to spur growth in hard-hit western communities are critical, particularly the investments in trade infrastructure and regional economic growth. This budget responds to some of FCM’s key recommendations, including expanding support for small and rural communities to become more resilient in the face of climate extremes, and new investments in broadband connectivity,” Frizzell said. “Municipalities are gearing up to drive a strong national recovery – in cities and communities of all sizes across the country. Garth Frizzell, president of the Federation of Canadian Municipalities ( FCM) and councillor of the City of Prince George, B.C., weighed in on the government’s efforts, focusing attention on how local governments across the country will be at the forefront of pandemic recovery.
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