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From Canada Without Poverty:
Federal
budget submission: We need action on poverty
September 22, 2011
[ Version
française (fichier PDF - 140K, 3 pages) ]
Canada Without Poverty today publicly released its 2012 Pre-budget Submission
to the House of Commons Finance Committee, for comment and discussion in advance
of hopeful opportunity to have discussion with the Committee this fall. The
release is also in advance of two major events of Canada Without Poverty at
the end of September, in part to increase public discussion on economic and
social rights such as the right to food, housing and social security.
Complete
submission (PDF - 442K, 5 pages)
Two-part recommendation for the federal government:
(1) to set targets and timelines for poverty reduction and elimination, and
(2) to study all fiscal mechanisms, federal as well as intergovernmental,
available to help reach these targets and lay out options for the committee’s
consideration and consultation.
Source:
Canada Without Poverty
Canada Without Poverty is a federally incorporated, non-partisan, not-for-profit
and charitable organization dedicated to the elimination of poverty in Canada.
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Newfoundland and Labrador Budget
2011 |
Budget
2011 - Standing Strong: For Prosperity.
For Our Future. For Newfoundland and Labrador
April 19, 2011
- main budget page, includes links to all budget papers and supporting documents
* Budget
Speech
* Budget
Highlights
Excerpt:
Standing Strong on Poverty Reduction
* Total investment on poverty reduction approaching $140 million this year,
cumulative investment of more than $620 million since 2006.
* $1.5 million ($6.1 million annually) to develop an Adult Dental Health Care
Program.
* Additional $2.4 million in funding for the Supportive Living Community Partnership
Program, for a total of $4.8 million, double the amount that was available in
2010-11.
* Expansion of the Housing Corporation’s Rent Supplement Program from $6
million in 2010-11 to $7 million in 2011-12 and $8 million the following year.
* Eliminating the clawback of income tax refunds for income support clients.
* more...
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Standing Strong on Child Care
* Two-year pilot project focused on the development of child care spaces
in family homes.
Highlights include:
--- Increased start-up grants from $2,500 to $5,000 to become a regulated family
child care provider, and infant start-up grants of $7,500 for homes that care
exclusively for children up to the age of two; and,
--- Ongoing stimulus grant to infant care homes of $200 a month per infant space.
Commencing with the 2011 taxation year, a new non-refundable child care tax
credit, based on child care expenses currently deductible from income.
News Releases (dated April 19, 2011)
* Budget
2011 Supports Families and Young Children
* Standing
Strong: For Prosperity. For Our Future. For Newfoundland and Labrador
* A
Clear Path to Opportunity, Self-Reliance and a Prosperous Future – Budget
2011 Stands Strong Against Poverty
[ All
13 news releases ]
Source:
Newfoundland and Labrador
Department of Finance
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TD Bank Financial Group
Analysis of the Budget:
NOTE: At the time of this update, the TD Bank
Financial Group had not yet been uploaded to their website.
Go to http://www.td.com/economics/gov_finances.jsp
and look for an "NL" link under "2011 Federal, Provincial and
Territorial Budgets", near the top of the page.
I'll recheck the link in a day or two and add it here if it's posted...
Source:
2011 Federal, Provincial
and Territorial Budgets
[ TD Bank Financial Group ]
----------------------------------------
Selected media coverage:
From CBC News:
'Sizzling'
economy powers N.L. budget surplus
Heat rebate, child care cited in broad spending program
April 19, 2011
Soaring oil production helped Newfoundland and Labrador on Tuesday post a whopping
$485-million surplus for the last fiscal year, with government expecting another
surplus despite a broad pre-election spending program. "Our economy is
sizzling right now," said Finance Minister Tom Marshall, whose new $7.3-billion
budget includes large increases on both the revenue and spending sides. The
government expects to finish the year with a surplus of $59 million. (...) Government
is using some of its oil-related windfall to curb the sting of heating bills,
with a new rebate that will apply not only to oil and propane but all residential
electrical bills.
---
- Go to the Newfoundland and Labrador Links
page:
http://www.canadiansocialresearch.net/nfbkmrk.htm
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Prince Edward Island Budget
2011 |
Prince
Edward Island Budget 2011
April 6, 2012
- main budget page, includes links to all supplementary papers and supporting
documents
Budget Address
HTML version
PDF version
(3MB)
April 6, 2011
Excerpt:
(...)
Adequate and affordable housing also contributes to family well-being and
healthy child development. Across PEI, nine Family Housing Boards maintain
and operate 476 housing units serving low-income families. Additional funding
of $300,000 will be provided to the Housing Boards to maintain these units
in good condition.
The Social Assistance Program assists eligible clients with their costs of
shelter based on type of accommodation and family size. Effective June 1,
2010, the Social Assistance Shelter rate will increase by 2 percent, representing
a $270,600 investment for the current fiscal year.
In addition to these supports for shelter and housing, this Budget also takes
action to meet other essential needs. Last June, the Social Assistance Food
Allowance rate was increased by 10 percent. In this fiscal year, a further
$83,000 will be provided to cover the annualized cost of this increase for
social assistance clients, taking our annual support for this increase to
a total of $500,000.
Highlights (PDF - 134K)
Budget
2011 supports health, education and a return to balance
News Release
April 6, 2011
[ Version
française du communiqué ]
The new provincial budget will continue the progress being made by Islanders
to build a stronger society and a more competitive economy, says Finance and
Municipal Affairs Minister Wes Sheridan. “Budget 2011 is an appropriate
budget for the times,” said the Minister. “Its primary focus is
to keep expenditure increases lower than revenue increases so we can return
to fiscal balance by our target date of 2013-2014. At the same time, it contains
modest increases to support the major gains being made to strengthen and sustain
our health and education systems.”
Source:
Department of Finance and Municipal
Affairs
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TD Bank Financial Group
Analysis of the Budget:
Delicate
Balancing Act for the PEI Government (PDF - 437K, 3 pages)
Finance Minister Wesley Sheridan tabled a budget document that consisted of
some new measures, saving targets and modest sin tax hikes. Given the improved
economic performance taking hold, budgetary revenues are expected to grow
by 5.0% year-over-year in FY 11-12. By contrast, total spending is poised
to inch down by 0.5% in this same fiscal year.
Source:
2011 Federal, Provincial
and Territorial Budgets
[ TD Bank Financial Group ]
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Selected media coverage:
From CBC News:
P.E.I.
deficit misses target
April 6, 2011
P.E.I. Finance Minister Wes Sheridan projected a $42 million deficit for the
province Wednesday, $2 million more than he estimated it would be at budget
time last year. The budget contained nothing in the way of major announcements.
Expenditures are expected to go up $19 million, about 1.25 per cent. The largest
increases are in education and health. Both budgets are up about three per
cent, but the new money is mostly consumed by increases in salary.
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- Go to the Prince Edward Island Links page:
http://www.canadiansocialresearch.net/pebkmrk.htm
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Manitoba Budget 2011 |
Manitoba
Budget 2011 - Steady Growth. Positive Results
April 12, 2011
- main budget page, includes links to all budget papers
[ Version française
de la page principale du budget 2011 ]
Manitoba's five-year economic plan takes a balanced approach. It supports
jobs, protects services and has Manitoba on track to return to surplus. The
plan is producing positive results. And Budget 2011 is sticking to the plan.
Manitoba Budget 2011:
* Puts Families First with tax credits for children’s activities, seniors
and caregivers, plus thousands of new child care spaces
* Invests in Health Care so all Manitobans who want a family doctor will have
one by 2015
* Builds Your Community by committing one percentage point of PST to municipal
roads, bridges, transit and community centres
* Creates Opportunities for Young People by freezing university tuition increases
to inflation and giving strong support to schools, universities and colleges
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Budget
Papers
[NOTE : A selection of the following content appears below.]
- includes links to * The Budget * Economic Review and Outlook * Expanding
Manitoba's Capacity for Innovation * Supplementary Financial Information
* Taxation Adjustments * The Manitoba Advantage * Age-Friendly
Manitoba: The Golden Years (PDF) [ English only ] * An Update
on Fiscal Transfer Arrangements * Education and Training - Investing in
the Future Success of Manitoba Youth and Families
[ Version
française ]
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The
Budget (PDF - 1.1MB, 46 pages)
April 12, 2011
[ Version
française du texte du budget (PDF - 915Ko.) ]
Rhetorical question: how many Manitoba Department of Finance types
does it take to spell FOREWORD?
On page "v" of the Budget, introductory material is presented
under the heading "FORWARD".
Argh.
Forward is a direction.
Foreword is the word or block of words that comes before the main body of
text.
If you do that again, I'll have to send Marg Warrior Princess to smite you,
once she's done with Stephen Harper.
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Manitoba’s
Five-Year
Economic Plan – Update 2011 (PDF - 393K, 8 pages)
April 2011
[ Version française
du plan économique (PDF - 404Ko.) ]
---
April 12, 2011
Budget
2011 : Putting Families First, Moving Manitoba Forward
Selinger Government's Five-year Plan Delivering Positive Results, Steady
Growth: Wowchuk
News Release
[ Version
française du communiqué ]
Budget 2011, year two of Manitoba’s five-year economic plan, is keeping
Manitoba on track as the province climbs out of the global economic downturn
by delivering on the priorities of families, Finance Minister Rosann Wowchuk
announced today.
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Budget
Paper D:
An Update on Fiscal Transfer Arrangements *
(PDF - 530K, 10 pages)
[ English only ]
The legislation governing Canada’s major federal transfer programs
will expire on March 31, 2014. (...) The key objectives of the renewal process
must be to develop an approach that provides an adequate and appropriate
level of transfers overall and allocates these funds to jurisdictions in
a fair and principled manner.
On the Importance of transfers
In 2011/12, the federal government will transfer close to $58 billion, approximately
23% of total federal program expenses, to the provinces and territories
through the major transfer arrangements: the Canada Health Transfer (CHT),
the Canada Social Transfer (CST), Equalization and Territorial Formula Financing
(TFF). Payments provided through these programs are a significant source
of revenue for all provinces and territories to provide the services important
to all Canadians.
[ Related link : Federal Transfers to Provinces and Territories - from Finance Canada ]
* This Manitoba Budget paper is an excellent primer on the renewal of the federal system of transfers that will take place in the Spring of 2014. It includes some contextual information (a description and history of transfers, how they are calculated, etc.), along with a summary of recent changes to major transfer programs and "Looking Forward". Here's an excerpt from that concluding section :
"Looking forward to the renewal of the major transfer arrangements in 2014, Manitoba believes that Equalization, as potentially the only remaining major national program that addresses differences in provincial revenue-raising capacities, will be an even more important feature of our Canadian federation."
* See
also:
Cuts Coming to the Canada Health Transfer and the Canada Social Transfer?
(February 1, 2011, By Rob Rainer of Canada
Without Poverty)
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TD Bank Financial Group
Analysis of the Budget:
A
Fiscal Plan Uncannily Similar to Last Year's (PDF - 477K, 3
pages)
April 12, 2011
Manitoba Finance Minister Rosann Wowchuk delivered her second provincial
budget earlier today. In comparison to the flooding that has dominated the
news in the past few days, today’s documents are not poised to create
much of a stir. This is because the fiscal plan, while better-than-expected,
is quite similar to that presented in last year’s budget. Admittedly,
a cumulative $88 million improvement to the deficit tally is anticipated,
but the better fortunes are not carried over to the medium-term. Instead,
the upgrade is front-end loaded impacting only the first two years of the
plan. As a result, a return to surplus is not scheduled to take place before
FY 14-15.
Source:
2011 Federal, Provincial
and Territorial Budgets
[ TD Bank Financial Group ]
----------------------------------------
Selected media coverage:
From CBC News:
Municipalities
get PST in 2011 Manitoba budget
Provincial debt climbs, $438-million deficit forecasted
April 12, 2011
A share of the PST for Municipalities and an increase to the personal tax-exemption
in Manitoba were among the highlights as Greg Selinger's NDP government
released its pre-election deficit budget Tuesday.
Budget Highlights:
* University operating funding boosted by five per cent a year or the next
three years.
* Tuition increases pegged to the rate of inflation and college fee increases
capped at $100
* Tobacco tax increased by 50 cents for a pack of 25 cigarettes.
* Tax credit up to $54 offered for kids under 16 enrolled in arts and cultural
activities.
* Funding for municipal infrastructure and transit hiked by $5 million this
year.
* $438-million deficit forecast on $14-billion budget. Two per cent increase
in overall spending.
* Money to create 2,100 more child-care spaces and 400 more nursery spaces.
* Small increases in education property tax rebates restored.
* Basic personal exemption to increase by $1,000 over four years
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- Go to the Manitoba Links page:
http://www.canadiansocialresearch.net/mbkmrk.htm
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Nova Scotia Budget 2011 |
Nova Scotia
Budget 2011 --- Making Life Better for Families
April 5, 2011
- main budget page, includes links to highlights by theme and target group
Budget
Documents
- includes the Budget Address
(small PDF file), Budget Highlights,
Budget Bulletins, Estimates, and other relevant documents.
Budget
2011 Advances Province's Priorities
News Release (social media version)
April 5, 2011
Finance Minister Graham Steele tabled the 2011-12 provincial budget today
which builds on the province's plans to make life better for families.
- includes Quotes - Key Budget Initiatives - Quick Facts
---
Helping
Families and Seniors Make Ends Meet (PDF - 484K, 2 pages)
Budget Bulletin
Budget 2011 builds on the province’s plan for change by helping families,
students, and seniors make ends meet.
- Fixing Canada’s Weakest Student Assistance System
By investing $42.5 million this year to fix our student assistance system,
the government will:
• Keep Nova Scotians’ tuition below the national average by investing
$30 million in student bursaries
• Create the first “debt cap” (the maximum amount of debt a
student may carry) in the province’s history.
• Offer up to $612 per year in additional grants, through an increase
in the loan-to-grant ratio
• Double the in-study earnings exemption on student loans—from $50
per week to $100 per week.
• more...
- Government will provide targeted support to help approximately 75,000 Nova
Scotia seniors, and others who live with low incomes, make ends meet.
(...)
Through investments made in this budget, government will do the following:
• Support people to enter and stay in the workforce by allowing people
on income assistance, including people with disabilities, to keep more of
their earned income
[allowing income assistance recipients to keep $150 per month of employment
income, in addition to the 30 per cent income exemption already in place;
doubling the flat-rate income exemption for persons with disabilities to $300,
in addition to the 30 per cent income exemption already in place.]
• Increase income assistance personal allowances by $15 per month as
of July 1, 2011
• Increase the Basic Personal Amount—the money people can earn before
they have to start paying taxes—by $250.
• Introduce fair drug pricing legislation to help reduce drug costs for
Nova Scotians who depend on Pharmacare, and provide an additional $3 million
in Pharmacare funding.
• Index the new Affordable Living and Poverty Reduction tax credits to
help low-income Nova Scotians make ends meet.
Related links:
Affordable Living and Poverty Reduction tax credits
Nova Scotia Affordable Living Tax Credit (ALTC)
The Affordable Living Tax Credit provides tax-free quarterly payments
to eligible Nova Scotians beginning July 1, 2010. Individuals and couples
will receive a base amount of $240 and $57 per child each year. The credit
is reduced by $0.05 for every dollar of adjusted family income over $30,000.
To qualify, you must be a Nova Scotia resident, and you must file an income
tax return each year and meet the eligibility criteria to continue receiving
ALTC payments in future years.
* more
info about the Affordable Living Tax Credit
The Poverty Reduction Credit (PRC)
The Poverty Reduction Credit will provide tax-free quarterly payments to eligible
Nova Scotians beginning July 1, 2010. Individuals and couples that have received
income assistance, have no children and have annual adjusted income below
$12,000 may be eligible. The Poverty Reduction Credit provides $50 payments
each quarter during the year ($200 annually). You must file an income tax
return each year and meet the eligibility criteria to continue receiving PRC
payments in future years.
[ PRC
Question & Answer (small PDF file) ]
Source:
Nova Scotia Department
of Finance
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TD Bank Financial Group
Analysis of the Budget:
Give
and Take to Live Within Nova Scotia's Means (PDF - 185K, 2 pages)
A $447 million surplus (or 1.2% of GDP) is the obvious headline coming out
of the 2011 Nova Scotia budget. Unfortunately, the good times and the black
ink are not expected to last. The Province plans for shortfalls in FY 11-12
and FY 12-13, before once recording to a surplus in FY 13-14.
Source:
2011 Federal, Provincial
and Territorial Budgets
[ TD Bank Financial Group ]
----------------------------------------
Selected media coverage:
From CBC News:
N.S.
budget squeezes out help for students
April 5, 2011
The Nova Scotia government plans to run a deficit this year as it squeezes
departments in order to find money for university students and rural health.
The New Democrats introduced a stand-pat budget on Tuesday, essentially freezing
government spending for 2011-12 while revenue remains flat.
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From The Coast - Halifax's website:
Student
federation rejects NDP plan to cap student debt
CFS calls for tuition fee reductions
instead
April 5, 2011
The Canadian Federation of Students (CFS) says the NDP’s plan to cap
student debt won’t do much to help Nova Scotia post-secondary students.
The debt-cap scheme was outlined in the provincial budget introduced today
at the legislature. (...) The NDP budget, introduced today, promises to forgive
the Nova Scotia portion of any student loans above $28,560 beginning in four
years time. The province estimates the measure would cost just over $8 million
in the first year. At the same time, however, the government is raising tuition
fees by three percent in each of the next three years. It’s also reducing
its grants to universities in the coming year by $14 million.
Source:
---
From the
Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives:
Nova Scotia Alternative Budget 2011
Excerpt from
Alternative Budget 2011:
Fast
Facts: Let's Make Poverty Reduction a Priority (PDF - 165K, 2
pages)
(...) Overall progress on poverty reduction has been slow for many reasons,
including the lack of federal commitment to poverty reduction and the
weakness of Nova Scotia’s poverty reduction strategy. In addition, we
are told governments have no choice but to focus on balancing budgets and
paying down deficits as quickly as possible. As the Alternative Federal Budget
and the Nova Scotia Alternative Budget have shown year after year, governments
do have a range of choices that remain fiscally responsible.
---
- Go to the Nova Scotia Links page:
http://www.canadiansocialresearch.net/nsbkmrk.htm
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2011 Ontario Budget |
2011
Ontario Budget
March 29, 2011
- main budget page, includes links to all budget papers and related resources
Budget 2011 Table of Contents
HTML version
PDF
version (16.1MB, 328 pages)
Ontario
Economy is Turning the Corner, Creating Jobs
McGuinty Government Reduces Deficit While Protecting Schools and Hospitals
News
March 29, 2011
The 2011 Ontario Budget continues the McGuinty government’s support
of Ontario’s economic recovery. The budget renews the focus on eliminating
the deficit while protecting education and health care. The deficit for
2010–11 is projected to be $16.7 billion — $3 billion lower than
forecast a year ago. This is largely due to the fact that program expense
for 2010–11 is projected to be $2.6 billion lower than the forecast
published in the 2010 Budget.
The 2011 Budget’s strategic investments include:
* Jobs and Growth * Protecting Education * Protecting Health Care * Managing
Responsibly
2011
Ontario Budget: Highlights
Five things you need to know about the 2011 Budget
1. The economy is improving and jobs are coming back
2. We are protecting the progress we have made in education
3. We are protecting the progress we have made in health care
4. We are renewing our focus on eliminating the deficit
5. We will eliminate the deficit while protecting key public services and
economic growth
New
Initiatives
Strong Education and Health Care Support a Strong Economy
Source:
Ontario Ministry of Finance
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TD Bank Financial Group
Analysis of the Budget:
Ontario
Stays the Course (PDF - 865K, 3 pages)
March 29, 2011
Today’s 2011 Ontario budget contains a quicker pace of near-term deficit
reduction than that outlined in the government’s Fall Update and re-affirms
the stated goal of a zero deficit by FY 2017-18. Since the government stayed
its hand on tax increases, further success in narrowing the budget gap will
fall heavily on reducing annual program spending growth to a minimal 1.4%
on average over the next seven years.
Earlier related link from
the TD Bank Financial Group:
Better
Economy, (Hopefully) Lower Deficit in Ontario (PDF - 702K, 3
pages)
March 24, 2011
Ontario’s economy has been perking up just in time for the release
of the 2011 budget on March 29th. Indeed, last week, TD Economics revised
up its Ontario real growth outlook for 2011 to 3%, about a half a percentage
point stronger than in its previous forecast just three months ago. And
other forecasters have for the most part followed suit with moderate upgrades
to the near-term outlook.
Source:
2011 Federal, Provincial
and Territorial Budgets
[ TD Bank Financial Group ]
----------------------------------------
Selected media coverage:
From CBC News:
---
From the
Toronto Star:
Ontario
Budget special section
- links to dozens of relevant articles
Ontario
budget goes back to the future
March 29, 2011
Rather than a road map for the future, Tuesday’s provincial budget takes
a sharp U-turn looking backward to the good old days of Liberal government.
---
From the
Globe and Mail:
What
the Ontario budget gives, and what it takes away
March 29, 2011
This budget offers no tax goodies and very few new spending initiatives, with
the exception of a few for higher education and health care.
- includes links to several related articles.
Keep scrolling down the page you're now reading for more media coverage...
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Other selected analysis:
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From the
Canadian Centre
for Policy Alternatives (CCPA):
Off
target: Ontario budget
misses the point on economic recovery (PDF - 177K, 3 pages)
March 25, 2011
With Ontario only beginning to emerge from its deepest recession in at least
a generation, Ontarians should have seen a 2010 budget that kept its focus
on fostering economic recovery. It should have supported those who have been
hardest hit by the recession and ensured a solid foundation for the future.
It should have been a budget that set aside the deficit as an issue for another
day. Although the budget is full of lofty and self-congratulatory rhetoric
on all of these fronts, in concrete terms the budget fails.
---
From the
Wellesley Institute:
Ontario
budget 2011: Serving up
significant cuts in affordable housing investments
By Michael Shapcott
March 30, 2011
Ontario’s 2011 budget is serving up significant cuts in both operating
and capital funding when it comes to affordable housing, following the lead
set by the federal government that has also offered significant cuts [ See
http://tinyurl.com/62w6xew ]. In
a recent submission to the provincial Legislature [ see http://tinyurl.com/69ymq8k
], the Wellesley Institute has noted that when the feds cut and download,
the province follows suit and cuts and downloads. When the federal government
makes new investments, the province tends to follow – though sometimes
taking several years to cost-share federal dollars.
Source:
Wellesley Institute Blog
[ Wellesley Institute ]
---
From the
Co-Operative Housing
Federation of Canada:
Ontario’s
Deficit Fighting Budget:
CHF Canada finds nothing for those looking for an affordable place to call
home
March 30, 2011
Ontario Region media release
(Toronto) Today’s 2011 Ontario budget takes aim at eliminating the provincial
deficit by 2017-18 and offers some help for education and health, but there
is nothing for the 600,000 Ontario households in need of suitable housing
they can afford.
---
From the
25 in 5 Network for Poverty Reduction:
Comments
on 2011 Ontario Budget
March 31, 2011
The 2011 Ontario budget is disappointing for low income people. There is little
new here that will help people struggling in poverty.
With an improvement in the economic outlook, the government had an opportunity
to invest in affordable housing and child care to support people to move out
of poverty. But this budget actually moves backwards in these areas.
Source:
25
in 5 eBulletin - March 31 issue
Also in the same eBulletin:
* Quote of the Day
* Take Action on the new Social Housing Legislation: HNO
* Bringing In Women’s Voices From the Margins
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From
CLEONet:
Income
security advocates comment on Ontario budget:
Ontario continues to trap social assistance recipients in poverty
March 30, 2011
Yesterday's 2011 provincial budget did nothing to free people relying on Ontario
Works (OW) and the Ontario Disability Support Program (ODSP) from the poverty
traps built into those programs. Given skyrocketing food prices and continuing
increases in energy and transportation costs, the budget's 1% increase to
OW and ODSP rates is more than disappointing and does not respond to deep
poverty and desperation, particularly among single people on OW whose incomes
are the lowest.
Article source:
Income Security Advocacy Centre (ISAC)
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From the
Ontario Coalition for Better Child
Care:
Lack
of Child Care Funding hurts Ontario’s Economic Recovery: Parents to Face
Higher Child Care Costs
(PDF - 118K, 1 page)
Ontario Budget 2011: Absence of Stabilization Funding for Child
Care
March 29, 2011
Press Release
Viable early learning and child care programs are key for working parents
to participate in the workforce. In the absence of stabilization funding in
Ontario’s 2011 budget released today, child care advocates warn of a
rising parent fees, cuts in services and closures as a result of years of
underfunding, combined with financial pressures from Ontario’s full-day
kindergarten program.
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Miscellaneous media coverage of the 2011
Ontario Budget:
[TIP : the title of the article is often in the URL.]
http://www.fin.gov.on.ca/en/budget/ontariobudgets/2011/index.html
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/story/2011/03/29/budget-ontario-released293.html
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/story/2011/03/29/budget-ontario-highlights294.html
http://www.windsorstar.com/news/Ontario+budget/4525871/story.html
http://www.windsorstar.com/health/Health+funding+nice+surprise/4524700/story.html
http://www.torontosun.com/news/torontoandgta/2011/03/30/17814641.html
http://www.torontosun.com/news/torontoandgta/2011/03/29/17800601.html
http://www.torontosun.com/comment/editorial/2011/03/29/17801051.html
http://www.torontosun.com/news/canada/2011/03/29/17800936.html
http://www.torontosun.com/news/canada/2011/03/29/17797961.html
http://www.torontosun.com/news/canada/2011/03/28/17786181.html
http://www.thestar.com/news/ontario/ontariobudget/article/965438--voices-on-the-provincial-budget
http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/article/965250--innovative-job-creation
http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/article/965247--help-coming-for-livestock-farmers
http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/article/965199--no-new-money-for-cities-in-budget
http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/article/965202--small-business-wish-list-a-bust-in-the-budget
http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/politics/article/965195--ontario-budget-highlights
http://www.thestar.com/opinion/editorialopinion/article/963079--help-for-hogs-not-caregivers
http://torontoist.com/2011/03/highlight_reel.php
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NP_Top_Stories/~3/U4sRv4ckUkY/
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NP_Top_Stories/~3/IBJCNEgh9sE/
http://www.thespec.com/opinion/editorial/article/508946--ontario-s-budget
http://www.torontosun.com/comment/columnists/christina_blizzard/2011/03/30/17814391.html
http://www.windsorstar.com/news/Vander+Doelen+future+full+debt/4533280/story.html
---
Thanks to Jennefer Laidley of the Income Security Advocacy Centre (ISAC)
for collecting and agreeing to share the media links above.
ISAC works with and on behalf of low income communities in Ontario to address
issues of income security and poverty.
Visit their website and their affiliate Social
Assistance Review website for a large collection of Ontario resources.
---
- Go to the Ontario Government Links page:
http://www.canadiansocialresearch.net/onbkmrk.htm
|
Saskatchewan 2011-12 Budget |
Saskatchewan
2011-12 Budget - main budget page
March 23, 2011
Government is building on the economic momentum Saskatchewan has achieved
by delivering a budget that helps to define the Saskatchewan Advantage. It
will:
• Lower taxes;
• Improve public services; and,
• Reduce debt, all within the context of a balanced budget.
- includes all budget-related news releases (16 of them) and documents (Address
- Estimates - Summary Book - Financial Overview - Budget Brochure)
The
Saskatchewan Advantage : Lower Taxes, Improved Services, Less Debt
(PDF - 51K, 2 pages)
News Release
March 23, 2011
Finance Minister Ken Krawetz today tabled a balanced budget that improves
government services, reduces the provincial debt and lowers taxes for individuals,
families, homeowners, farmers and businesses. Krawetz said the province’s
growing economy has created “The Saskatchewan Advantage” and means
Saskatchewan’s budget will be unlike most others tabled across Canada
this year. (...)
The 2011-12 Budget cuts taxes by almost $200 million, reduces debt by $325
million and improves public services, while still posting a surplus of $115
million and leaving just over $710 million in the government’s “rainy
day account” – the Growth and Financial Security Fund. Revenue for
2011-12 is forecasted to be $10.79 billion, up 8.5 per cent from last year’s
budget while expense is expected to be $10.67 billion, up 5.5 per cent from
last year. On a summary basis, that is, when all government operations are
included, the budget surplus is expected to be $54.3 million.
---
BACKGROUNDER:
Budget 2011-12 Key Facts and Figures (PDF - 40K, 5 pages)
- includes budget highlights by sector
Excerpt:
Social Services:
- $197.8 million total Child Welfare budget.
- $34 million for a new Saskatchewan Children and Youth Agenda.
- $15.3 million for a response to the Child Welfare Review. This will provide
better support for children in care, strengthen home assessments within the
child welfare system, increase the number of child protection workers and
provide more intensive family supports, and an increase of 26.9 per cent in
funding for the Family Finders Program, which has been very successful in
finding First Nations families and interested individuals such as relatives
in providing homes off-reserve for First Nations Children in care of the Minister.
- $26.6 million for caseload and cost per case increases in income assistance
programs,
- $13.6 million or 3.9 per cent over the 2010-11 Forecast, largest increases
in SAP, Rental Housing Supplement and Shelter Allowances.
- $33.9 million for social housing capital projects to match federal funding
pre-funded.
- $15.8 million for intellectually disabled addressing wait lists and adding
new individuals.
- $1.7 million for two new housing initiatives to create more affordable housing
in Saskatchewan. This is on top of $33.9 million announced previously which
will go toward renovation of existing government assisted housing and to support
the development of new housing.
First Nations and Métis Relations:
- $3.6 million to maintain funding for all current Treaty Land Entitlement
Agreements.
- $490,000 for the new Northern Action Plan – a three-year plan with
an objective to reduce suicide rates and drug use among northern youth.
- $350,000 to support First Nations and Métis engagement in consultations
on the Children
and Youth Agenda
[ All 16 news releases - these links are on the main Budget page for 2011-2012 ]
Source:
Saskatchewan Finance Department
----------------------------------------
TD Bank Financial Group
Analysis of the Budget:
What
a Difference a Year Makes (PDF - 460K, 3 pages)
March 23, 2011
A year ago tomorrow, the Saskatchewan government tabled a preemptive budget
layered with service cuts and tax hikes. This was done to avoid exerting a more
comprehensive fiscal consolidation effort later on down the road. The 2011 budget
released today looked nothing like its predecessor. The government’s tone
has shifted from uncertainty and a need for restraint to securing long term
economic prosperity. After last year’s belt tightening, new tax measures
and spending initiatives were presented. All told, the Province is the first
thus far in the budget season to report a surplus position of $20 million in
FY 10-11 and $383 million in FY 11-12
Source:
2011 Federal, Provincial
and Territorial Budgets
[ TD Bank Financial Group ]
----------------------------------------
Selected media coverage:
From CBC News:
Tax
cuts, extra spending in Sask. budget
March 23, 2011
Saskatchewan rolled out a surplus budget Wednesday that includes tax cuts and
extra spending — and will be the last before a provincial election in the
fall. The budget unveiled by Finance Minister Ken Krawetz Wednesday projects
spending in the general revenue fund to come in at $10.7 billion, while revenues
are about $10.8 billion, for the fiscal year that begins April 1. The result
is a $115-million surplus in the general revenue fund, which covers ministries.
----------------------------------------
Analysis by the
Canadian Centre
for Policy Alternatives - Saskatchewan Office:
The “Other Saskatchewan”
A Budget Response by CCPA Saskatchewan*
by Simon Enoch
March 24, 2011
If yesterday’s budget was designed to give something to everyone in order
to win over voters for the upcoming election, then it is clear where the poorest
and most vulnerable in our province rank in the minds of Sask Party electoral
strategists. (...) Finance Minister Ken Krawetz also made repeated mention of
the “Saskatchewan Advantage” – obviously borrowing from the oft-used
“Alberta Advantage.” Let’s hope that the Sask Party is not intent
on also borrowing Alberta’s record of wanton neglect for the poorest in
that province as well; the “Other Saskatchewan” simply cannot afford
it.
* NOTE: The
URL for this file contains quote marks (" "):
http://www.policyalternatives.ca/publications/commentary/"other-saskatchewan"
On some systems, these quote marks will be automatically
re-coded as shown below by the browser, according to the rules for ASCII Control
characters and Non-ASCII characters. And the URL will appear as:
http://www.policyalternatives.ca/publications/commentary/%E2%80%9Cother-saskatchewan%E2%80%9D
See which of the above two links works in your
browser.
[If neither link works, go
to the home page of the CCPA SK Office and do a site search for "budget
response".
The link isn't on the CCPA-SK home page yet (March 25am), but I'm sure it will
be posted there quite soon.
I've sent an email to the CCPA Contact Us link
to suggest a re-post of the file without the quote marks.
Which is why it's a good idea to avoid characters
like quote marks and spaces
between your words or characters when you're naming a file that will be uploaded
to the Internet. [ More
on ASCII characters : the techie-talk version ]
---
- Go to the Saskatchewan Links page:
http://www.canadiansocialresearch.net/skbkmrk.htm
|
Budget
2011 - Government of Canada |
Budget
2011 - Government of Canada
March 22, 2011
[ français
]
- main budget page, includes links to :
* The Budget
Plan
* Budget
Speech
* Budget
in Brief
* not much more...
Harper
Government launches next phase of
Canada's Economic Action Plan—a low-tax plan for jobs and growth
News Release
March 22, 2011
The Honourable Jim Flaherty, Minister of Finance, today tabled a budget plan
that launches the Next Phase of Canada’s Economic Action Plan, a low-tax
plan for jobs and growth, which keeps the Government on track to return to
balanced budgets in the medium term.
[ Federal
budgets for earlier years ]
Related link:
The
Next Phase of Canada’s Economic Action Plan
—A Low-Tax Plan for Jobs and Growth
- this is a link to the Canada’s Economic Action Plan website.
Source:
Department of Finance Canada
----------------------------------------
TD Bank Financial Group
Analysis of the Budget:
All
signs point to a short shelf-life for today's federal budget (PDF
- 870K, 4 pages)
The federal government released its budget earlier today. Included in this
publication was a smattering of small measures such as a temporary credit
for small businesses and renewed funding for the ecoEnergy retrofit program.
However, given the Conservative government’s minority status in Parliament,
the budget requires the support of at least one other party. All three opposition
party leaders have declared that they will vote the budget down. Under this
scenario, all of the new spending and tax items announced today would not
be implemented.
Source:
2011 Federal, Provincial
and Territorial Budgets
[ TD Bank Financial Group ]
----------------------------------------
Selected media coverage:
From CBC News:
Opposition
leaders reject federal budget
March 22, 2011
Opposition leaders immediately rejected the Conservative government's budget
Tuesday, setting the stage for a possible spring election. Within minutes
of Finance Minister Jim Flaherty tabling his "low-tax plan for jobs and
growth" in the House of Commons, Liberal Leader Michael Ignatieff, Bloc
Québécois Leader Gilles Duceppe and NDP Jack Layton all said
the budget didn't contain enough to warrant their support.
Related CBC Links:
* Weston
says budget marks Tories' campaign kickoff
* Budget
2011: How satisfied are you with what's in it?
* Interactive
: Something for everyone
* Online
reaction to the 2011 budget
* Budget
aims to build on growth
-----------
* Budget 2011 - from the Globe and Mail
-----------
* 2011 Federal Budget - from the Toronto Star
----------------------------------------
Other selected analysis:
From the
Childcare Resource and Research Unit (CRRU):
Federal
budget 2011 and responses
23 Mar 11
CRRU has gathered budget documents, NGO responses and media coverage of the
recent federal budget from the following groups:
* Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, 22 Mar 11 : Harper budget
priorities: Bread. Canadians’ priorities: Crumbs.
* YWCA Canada, 22 Mar 11 : Child care
gap fails the economy: Prisons not an investment in women’s safety
* Campaign 2000, 22 Mar 11 : The budget:
Measuring-out in coffee spoons for families
* Caledon Institute of Social Policy, 23 Mar 11 : Policy
agenda in search of a budget
* Public Service Alliance of Canada, 22 Mar 11 : Federal
budget fails seniors, workers and all Canadians
* Canadian Association of University Teachers, 22 Mar 11 : Another
missed opportunity for post-secondary education and research
* Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE), 22 Mar 11 : “Bits
and pieces” budget lacks vision for Canadian workers
* CUPE Newfoundland Labrador Division, 22 Mar 11 : Ditch the fighter
jets and corporate tax cuts
* United Food and Commercial Workers, 23 Mar 11, Canada's largest
private sector union says federal budget "falls short" for working
families
---
From the Canadian
Union of
Public Employees (CUPE):
Designed
to fail: Harper's nickel and dime 2011 budget
March 22, 2011
2011 Federal Budget Summary and Overview:
The 2011 federal budget is billed as the “low-tax plan for jobs and growth,”
but there is little of substance new here—either on spending to create
jobs or tax cuts. At most, it includes a lot of bits and pieces in a politically
opportunistic bid to stay in power.
---
From the
Canadian Labour Congress (CLC):
Analysis
of the 2011 Federal Budget
22 March 2011
With unemployment and underemployment still at high levels, the federal government
should have led the way to a sustained and broadly shared economic recovery.
Instead, the Conservative Budget introduces only very modest new job creation
and social spending measures, including a supplement to the Guaranteed Income
Supplement for low income seniors, and a home energy retrofit program
---
From the
Wellesley Institute:
Federal
budget 2011: Nothing to reverse
erosion in national housing / homelessness investments
The 2011 federal budget – released earlier
this afternoon – does nothing to reverse the two decades of erosion in
federal affordable housing investments (as set out in the Wellesley Institute’s
Precarious Housing in Canada 2010). The latest federal budget, which may not
be implemented as all three opposition parties have indicated that they do
not support it, offers no new investments in housing or homelessness.
---
From the
Canadian Centre
for Policy Alternatives (CCPA):
Harper
Budget Priorities : Bread.
Canadians’ Priorities : Crumbs.
March 22, 2011
OTTAWA—Today’s federal budget looks more like an attempt to stay
in power than a fiscal remedy for the real problems facing Canadians, says
the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (CCPA), an independent think tank.
The CCPA’s leading economists find this year’s federal budget obscures
the true cost of Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s plan to balance the
books while favouring Harper’s pet projects over Canadians’ priorities.
Also from the
Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives:
Alternative Federal Budget
2011 - March 15, 2010
- this link takes you further down on the page you're
now reading
---
From
Make Poverty History - Canada:
Federal
Budget Fails to Address Poverty
March 22, 2011
An increase in the Guaranteed Income Supplement for seniors of up to $600
a year for single seniors and $840 for couples is about the only measure in
the federal budget that does anything to reduce poverty. And it will actually
help a relatively small number of people because it is targeted only to those
receiving the maximum GIS amount. Even this modest anti-poverty measure might
not have been in the budget had it not been for a half hearted effort by the
Conservatives to gain the support of the New Democratic Party. But the amount
in the budget was not even a half measure. It was only about a third of what
is needed to bring all seniors out of poverty and it wasn't enough to justify
NDP or any other opposition party's support.
---
From
Canada Without Poverty:
Federal
budget offers little for struggling Canadians
Mar 22nd, 2011 by megan
This afternoon the Conservative government presented the 2011 budget with
poor reviews. Finance Minister Jim Flaherty offered the same old “stay
the course” rhetoric, which means that corporate tax cuts and a focus
on slaying the deficit are paramount. Little was presented that surprise anti-poverty
groups, although low-income seniors are given a modest increase through the
guaranteed income supplement. This was not enough to keep opposition parties
happy – all have rejected the budget pushing us even closer to an election
call.
---
- Go to the General Federal Government Links page:
http://www.canadiansocialresearch.net/fed2.htm
New
Brunswick 2011-2012 Budget
March 22, 2011
[ français
]
- main budget page, includes links to:
* Budget
Speech
* News Release (see below)
* Economic Outlook
* Main Estimates
* Capital Estimates
* Fact Sheets
* Historical Budgets
Government
cuts in 2011-12 budget forecast to reduce deficit by more than half
News Release
22 March 2011
FREDERICTON (CNB) – The provincial government tabled its 2011-12 budget
today at the legislative assembly, announcing significant spending reductions
and increased revenue measures expected to result in a smaller deficit, projected
at $448.8 million. Finance Minister Blaine Higgs said the provincial government
had been facing a $1-billion deficit if the spending trends of the past four
years continued.
Source:
New Brunswick Department of Finance
----------------------------------------
TD Bank Financial Group
Analysis of the Budget:
Welcome
to life in fiscally-constrained New Brunswick (PDF - 418K, 3 pages)
March 22, 2011
By all accounts, today’s provincial budget is a defining one for the
new Alward government and austerity was certainly the theme of the day. In
an attempt to rein in the Province’s sizeable deficits, $220 million
in new spending cuts and $100 million in new revenue-generating measures are
to be in effect for FY 11-12.
Source:
2011 Federal, Provincial
and Territorial Budgets
[ Part of the
TD Bank Financial Group ]
----------------------------------------
Media:
From CBC News:
N.B.'s
hard cuts to come: finance minister
Mar 23, 2011
New Brunswick's finance minister is cutting spending by $220 million in the
upcoming fiscal year, but says he's putting off many of the difficult cuts
for at least another year. Finance Minister Blaine Higgs, who announced the
provincial budget Tuesday, said turning around such massive spending can't
be done in one year and it has to be properly researched and analyzed first.
----------------------------------------
Critique:
New
Brunswick Advisory Council
on the Status of Women (NB-ACSW) : Abolished April 1?
The provincial government has announced the end of our Advisory Council on
the Status of Women, effective 1 April, 2011. The role of the Advisory Council,
as stated in the law that created us, is to bring before the government and
the public matters of interest and concern to women, and to advise the Minister.
This proud mandate was given to us by New Brunswick women.
Related links:
Save
Our Advisory Council
Women’s groups have started this blog to raise public awareness
and support for reinstating the NB Advisory Council on the Status of Women.
About the Issue
During his election campaign, David Alward promised that, if elected, he would
consult with the New Brunswick Advisory Council on the Status of Women. Then
he released the 2011 provincial budget, which abolishes the New Brunswick
Advisory Council on the Status of Women, effective April 1st.
Motion
to Reinstate the NB ACSW
The Leader of the Official Opposition, Victor Boudreau, introduced a motion
in the Legislative Assembly last week calling for the reinstatement of the
Advisory Council on the Status of Women. The motion will be debated in the
Legislature this coming Thursday, March 31st.
See also:
Advisory
Council on the Status of Women - English home page
Conseil
consultatif sur la condition de la famille - Page d'accueil en français
----------------------
March 23, 2011
News release
Moncton-
Provincial budget puts nothing in the plates of the poor. (PDF
- 291K, 2 pages)
“All of them are already in the last notch of their belt, so how much
more can they tighten it; right now their stomach is already touching their
backbone.” stated Ms McCaustlin. “We are very disappointed with
this first budget coming from the newly elected Alward government”, says
Linda McCaustlin, co-chair of the Common Front for Social Justice. The Social
Development Department will only have a 1.3% increase in the “Income
Security” section of next year’s budget, barely enough to keep up
with the inflation rate.
Source:
New Brunswick Common Front
for Social Justice
The Common Front for Social Justice is one of the largest democratic and
popular organizations in New Brunswick, with close to 75,000 group and individual
members. The Common Front brings together individuals as well as local, regional
and provincial organizations to work towards the eradication of poverty.
----------
Version française:
Communiqué
Le 23 mars 2011
Moncton-
Le budget provincial ne met rien dans l’assiette des pauvres
« Toutes les personnes en situation de pauvreté ne peuvent plus
serrer leur ceinture; ils sont au dernier trou et leur estomac frotte déjà
sur leur colonne vertébrale! Nous sommes très déçus
du premier budget du nouveau gouvernement Alward » dit Madame Joanne
Petitpas, secrétaire du Front commun pour la justice sociale. Le budget
du ministère du Développement social de 2011-2012 ne contient
qu’une augmentation de 1,3 % à la portion « Sécurité
du revenu », ce qui est à peine suffisant pour compenser pour
le taux d’inflation.
Source:
Front commun pour la justice
sociale du Nouveau-Brunswick
Le Front commun pour la justice sociale est un des plus importants organismes
démocratiques et populaires au NB. Il compte environ 75 000 membres
individuels et collectifs. Il regroupe des individus et des organisations
locales, régionales et provinciales travaillant ensemble à l'élimination
de la pauvreté.
---
- Go to the New Brunswick Links page:
http://www.canadiansocialresearch.net/nbkmrk.htm
|
Québec Budget 2011-2012 |
NOTA : les liens vers le français suivent l'anglais ci-dessous.
Québec
Budget 2011-2012
March 17, 2011
- includes links to all Budget documents, press releases and budgets for previous
years
Press release No. 1
2011-2012
Budget: Looking to the Future: A Plan for Québec (PDF -
452K, 3 pages)
Québec, March 17, 2011 – “To control its choices and destiny,
a people must control its public finances. That is my responsibility towards
present and future Quebecers,” the Minister of Finance, Raymond Bachand,
said today in tabling the Québec government’s 2011-2012 Budget.
Source:
Budget
Press Releases
Click the link above to access any of the
nine other press releases whose titles appear below:
* A Plan for Public Finances
* A Plan to Control Government Spending
* A Plan to Develop Our Territory and Our Natural Resources
* A Plan for Our Young People
* A Fair and Balanced Plan for Funding Our Universities
* A Plan to Secure Adequate Retirement Income and Capitalize on the Skills
of Our Experienced Workers
* A Plan to Position Québec in the New Global Economy
* A Plan to Consolidate Our Solidarity Tools
* A Plan to Celebrate Québec Culture
Source:
Ministère des
finances(English home page)
----------------------------------------
TD Bank Financial Group
Analysis of the Budget:
Québec
Chugs Along Back to Balance (PDF - 464K, 4 pages)
March 17, 2011
Québec Finance Minister Raymond Bachand tabled his second provincial
budget earlier today. We were promised a document that showed that the deficit
elimination course was on schedule and a return to surplus would be realized
come FY 13-14. This is exactly what we received.
Source:
2011 Federal, Provincial
and Territorial Budgets
[ TD Bank Financial Group ]
----------------------------------------
Media:
From CBC News:
Quebec
budget tackles deficit at consumer cost
March 17, 2011
Quebec’s Liberal government is staying the course to master the province’s
massive debt, with a new $69.1 billion budget that caps program spending and
raises consumer fees including tuition. Quebec is ahead of schedule to reduce
its looming deficit and is on track to achieve a balanced ledger, said Finance
Minister Raymond Bachand, who tabled his budget 2011-2012 on Thursday.
Related CBC Links:
* Finance Minister
Raymond Bachand's budget speech (PDF - 728K, 56 pages)
* Quebec
budget slaps lower, middle classes: critics
* External Link:
--- Montreal Economic
Institute: Quebec Debt Clock
Source:
CBC News
---
- Go to the Québec Links (English) page:
http://www.canadiansocialresearch.net/qce.htm
|
|
Version française:
Budget
du Québec 2011-2012
Le 17 mars 2011
- liens vers le message du Ministre des Finances, les documents budgétaires,
les communiqués, les budgets précédents et plus encore...
Communiqué
N°1
Bugdet 2011-2012
Tournés vers l’avenir : un plan pour le Québec
(PDF - 450K, 3 pages)
Québec, le 17 mars 2011 – « Quand un peuple contrôle
ses finances publiques, il reste maître de ses choix et de son destin.
Voilà ma responsabilité envers les Québécois d’aujourd’hui
et ceux de demain », a déclaré aujourd’hui le ministre
des Finances, M. Raymond Bachand, au moment de rendre public le budget 2011-2012
du gouvernement du Québec.
Source:
Communiqués
de presse, Budget 2011-2012
Cliquez le lien ci-dessuspour accéder lesneuf autres communiqués
pertinents au budget 2011-2012, dont les titres figurent ci-dessous:
* Un plan pour les finances publiques
* Un plan pour le contrôle des dépenses du gouvernement
* Un plan pour mettre en valeur notre territoire et nos ressources naturelles
* Un plan pour nos jeunes
* Un plan équitable et équilibré pour financer nos universités
* Un plan pour assurer des revenus de retraite adéquats et pour bénéficier
des compétences de nos travailleurs expérimentés
* Un plan pour positionner le Québec dans la nouvelle économie
mondiale
* Un plan pour consolider nos outils de solidarité
* Un plan pour célébrer notre culture
Source:
Ministère des
Finances
Analyse et faits
saillants de Radio-Canada:
Les
faits saillants du budget
Québec maintient le cap
Dans son deuxième budget, le ministre des Finances Raymond
Bachand croit qu’il atteindra l’équilibre budgétaire
lors de l’exercice financier 2013-2014. D’ici là, les contribuables
devront payer davantage de taxes au cours de l’année.
Source:
Radio-Canada
---
- Rendez-vous à la page de liens
de recherche sociale au Québec:
http://www.canadiansocialresearch.net/qcbkmrk.htm
|
Alternative Federal Budget
2011- March 15, 2011 |
From the
Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives:
Alternative
Federal Budget 2011
Rethink, Rebuild, Renew: A Post-Recession Recovery Plan
March 15, 2011
Complete
budget (PDF - 1.8MB, 156 pages)
AFB 2011 presents a comprehensive recovery plan designed to:
• get Canadians working in good jobs again;
• reduce record-high income inequality, strengthen Canada’s middle
class, and improve supports for Canada’s poor and most vulnerable;
• protect public programs that all Canadians rely on — including public
health care and public pensions;
• more...
(Excerpt from the Introduction)
...
The AFB adopts the following indicators, targets, and timelines:
• Reduce Canada’s poverty rate by 25% within five years (by 2016),
and by 75% within a decade.
• Ensure the poverty rate for children and youth under 18, lone-mother
households, single senior women, Aboriginal people, people with disabilities,
and recent immigrants likewise declines by 25% in five years, and by 75% in
10 years, in recognition that poverty is concentrated within these populations.
• In two years, ensure every person in Canada has an income that reaches
at least 75% of the poverty line.
• In two years, ensure no one has to sleep outside, and end all homelessness
within ten years by ensuring all people who are homeless have good quality,
appropriate housing.
• more...
(Excerpt, p. 90)
Related materials:
* Budget
in Brief (PDF - 649K)
* 10
solutions for the federal budget (PDF - 160 KB)
* Alternative
Federal Budget Updates - related links from CCPA
Source:
Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives
----
Related link:
An
Alternative Budget: Making Jobs, Not War
By Armine Yalnizyan
March 15, 2011
"(...) Canadians can afford more of just about anything we want. Canada
is the ninth largest economy in the world, with a fraction of the population
of other large economies. But the distribution of our economic power and strength
has grown increasingly lopsided. Not since the 1920s have so few Canadians captured
so much of the gains of economic growth. Not since the 1920s have so few Canadians
controlled so much of our wealth. Not since the 1920s have Canadian millionaires
paid such low taxes."
Source:
Progressive Economics
Forum (PEF) - blog
[ The Progressive Economics Forum
]
|
Nunavut Budget 2011-2012 |
Government
of Nunavut: 2011-12 Budget
March 1, 2011
- includes links to :
* Budget Highlights (see below) * Budget Address * Supplementary Information
* Fiscal and Economic Outlook * Main Estimates * Capital Estimates: * Supplementary
Appropriations (Capital) * Supplementary Appropriation (Operations and Maintenance)
Business Plans (see below)
Budget
Highlights (PDF - 308K, 2 pages)
The Government of Nunavut (GN) is investing to support the priorities set
out in Tamapta, the GN’s long-term vision for Nunavut. Investments in
education, social assistance and health emphasize the GN’s focus on Nunavummiut.
(...)
* The GN is investing an additional $18 million in education, focusing most
of the new funding to support our K-12 students.
* The GN is providing an additional $3 million to increase social assistance
payments. This is not a solution to poverty, but it is a way to help some
of Nunavut’s most disadvantaged citizens.
* The GN is providing an additional $32 million to invest in the health of
Nunavummiut. Health care now makes up a quarter of the GN’s program spending.
Business
Plans (PDF - 2.2MB, 352 pages)
The Dept. of Education (responsible for income support) changes to the Social
Assistance Regulations in order to introduce an increase to both the food
and clothing allowances in the program to come into effect April 1, 2011.
Source:
Nunavut Department of Finance
----------------------------------------
TD Bank Financial Group
Analysis of the Budget:
Nunavut
joins the deficit club (PDF - 465K, 3 pages)
The Nunavut government released its 2011 budget this afternoon. In these documents,
the government reveals that it is now projecting a deficit of $132.2 million
for FY 10-11. This is nearly $130 million more than what was projected in
last year’s budget. The larger deficit comes primarily as a result of
the government covering the shortfalls incurred by the Nunavut Housing Corporation.
Looking ahead to the next fiscal year, a deficit of $50 million (or 2.7% of
GDP) is anticipated.
Source:
2011 Federal, Provincial
and Territorial Budgets
[ TD Bank Financial Group ]
----------------------------------------
Media:
Nunavut
budget projects $50M deficit
March 1, 2011
The Nunavut government estimates it will incur a $50-million deficit in
the upcoming fiscal year, despite an increase in revenue, says Finance Minister
Keith Peterson. Tabling the territory's 2011-2012 budget on Tuesday, Peterson
said even with the projected deficit, there will be no program cuts and
the budget actually proposes more spending for departments. (...) Peterson's
budget calls for spending increases for all departments, including a $32-million
increase for the Health and Social Services Department and $18 million more
for the Education Department.
Source:
CBC North
--------------------------------------
- Go to the Nunavut Links page:
http://www.canadiansocialresearch.net/nunavut.htm
|
Alberta Budget 2011 |
Alberta Budget
2011
February 24, 2011
- includes links to newsroom, charts and graphs and other budget documents
Budget
2011 lays the foundation to build a better Alberta
Province well-positioned for return to economic growth
News Release
February 24, 2011
- includes Budget highlights
Government
and Ministry Business Plans, 2011-14
* Employment
and Immigration (PDF - 237K, 4 pages) - dept. responsible for welfare
* Children
and Youth Services (PDF - 79K, 4 pages)
* Seniors
and Community Supports (PDF - 80K, 4 pages)
Source:
Alberta Finance and Enterprise
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TD Bank Financial Group
Analysis of the Budget:
A
Political Geyser Gushes to the Surface (PDF - 432K, 3 pages)
February 24, 2011
The Alberta government released its 2011 budget earlier today. The tone
of the budget picks up from last year with the need for austerity and long-run
fiscal sustainability. For a second straight year, several ministries saw
cuts to their departmental allocations. However, all but $240 million of
the savings generated from this restraint will be re-invested in key priority
areas like health and education.
Source:
2011 Federal, Provincial
and Territorial Budgets
[ TD Bank Financial Group ]
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Media:
'Practical'
Alta. budget projects $3.4 billion deficit
February 24, 2011
Alberta's Progressive Conservative government is projecting a $3.4 billion
deficit for the 2011-12 fiscal year, while relying heavily on the savings
account known as the Sustainability Fund for billions of dollars of spending
on infrastructure and health. The fund, now forecast at $11.2 billion, is
projected to end the fiscal year at $5.3 billion, but Finance Minister Lloyd
Snelgrove defended his government's use of the money.
Source:
CBC News
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Alberta
freezes student assistance, operating grants
Council of Alberta University Students says budget does not improve access
to university
By Sarah Petz
February 25, 2011
While post secondary education in Alberta may have faired [sic] better with
this year’s provincial budget than in 2010, some student representatives
are still concerned that the funding allocated is not enough to make up
for last year’s drastic cuts.The ministry of Advanced Education and
Technology saw a 1.2 per cent increase to its operational support budget,
which covers basic operational funding for Alberta post secondary education.
However, funding for student assistance programs and operating grants to
universities and colleges have been held at 2010 levels. The budget also
saw payouts from the Access to the Future Fund, an endowment created in
2005 to match private donations to post secondary institutions, suspended
for two years, leaving $700 worth of donations left in limbo, according
to the Edmonton Journal.
Source:
Macleans.ca On Campus
- Go to the Alberta Links page:
http://www.canadiansocialresearch.net/abkmrk.htm
|
British Columbia Budget 2011 |
British
Columbia Budget 2011
February 15, 2011
- includes links to all news releases, backgrounders, budget highlights, Ministry
Services Plans, and much more...
From the Budget 2011 Ministry Service Plans page:
* Ministry
of Social Development 2011/12 – 2013/14 Service Plan (PDF - 1.2MB,
22 pages) - February 2011
(Ministry responsible for welfare)
* Ministry of Children and Family Development (PDF - 443K, 21 pages) - February 2011
Source:
Ministry of Finance
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TD Bank Financial Group
Analysis of the Budget:
BC
Budget 2011
ROUND ONE DONE. WILL THERE BE A ROUND TWO? (PDF - 466K, 3 pages)
February 15, 2011
Finance Minister Colin Hansen tabled British Columbia’s (BC) 2011 budget
earlier today. The timing of this release may seem less than ideal given the
political leadership uncertainties facing the province. But, the schedule
was largely out of the Minister’s hands as the budget release date is
specified in provincial legislation. Leading up to today’s release, Minister
Hansen had indicated this would be a status quo budget, containing only minor
housekeeping items and an economic and fiscal update. This is exactly what
we received today. No new spending
items, tax measures or regulations were announced.
Source:
2011 Federal, Provincial
and Territorial Budgets
[ TD Bank Financial Group ]
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Media:
B.C.
finance minister
unveils ‘status quo’ budget
By Susan Lazaruk
February 15, 2011
B.C. Finance Minister Colin Hansen used the opportunity of his new budget
to warn that if voters kill the HST, taxpayers are going to take a big hit.
With a new premier coming in and the uncertainty about the future of the HST,
he admitted the new budget he delivered Tuesday afternoon wasn’t what
he’d call “exciting.” That means no new programs or tax or
program cuts and only marginal spending hikes for health care and welfare
payments and some extra money in the contingency fund for this fiscal year
to provide a new government with some wiggle room.
[ 48
comments ]
Source:
The Province (Vancouver)
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- Go to the BC Government Links page:
http://www.canadiansocialresearch.net/bcbkmrk.htm
|
Northwest Territories 2011-2012
Budget
|
Northwest
Territories 2011-2012 Budget
February 3, 2011
- includes Budget address, highlights, expenditures, revenue, looking forward,
etc.
PDF
version (738K, 58 pages)
- includes the Budget Address as well as the economic and fiscal reviews
[ version française
de ces deux fichiers ]
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TD Bank Financial Group
Analysis of the Budget:
COUNT
‘EM: SIX YEARS OF CONSECUTIVE SURPLUSES
2011 Northwest Territories Budget (PDF - 440K, 3 pages)
February 3, 2011
Today, Northwest Territories’ (NWT) Finance Minister Michael Miltenberg
tabled his 2011 budget. This release comes just weeks after the governments
of Canada and NWT signed a devolution agreement-in-principle that includes
a series of steps to be taken before full authority of Crown lands is given.
After tabling a deficit in FY 09-10, the NWT government is projecting surpluses
from FY 10-11 to FY 15-16.
Source:
2011 Federal, Provincial
and Territorial Budgets
[ TD Bank Financial Group ]
----------------------------------------
Media:
N.W.T.
budget proposes $16.9M in new spending
The Northwest Territories government is proposing a $1.34-billion budget that
includes $16.9 million in new spending. Finance Minister Michael Miltenberger
tabled the 2011-12 budget on Thursday, saying it builds on the achievements
his government has made over the last three years.
Source:
CBC Canada North
---
NWT organizations
chime in on territorial budget
February 4, 2011
Yellowknife, N.W.T.
"Safe" is the word some organizations are calling the territory's
new budget, tabled Thursday by the GNWT. There are no new taxes planned for
2011-2012, but the executive director of the Yellowknife Chamber of Commerce,
Tim Doyle, is a bit worried about the possibly of future taxes.
Source:
HQYellowknife.com
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- Go to the Northwest Territories Links page:
http://www.canadiansocialresearch.net/ntbkmrk.htm
|
Yukon 2011 Budget |
Yukon 2011
Budget
February 3, 2011
- incl. links to all budget papers for all fiscal years back to 1998-99
2010-2011 Budget Address [ PDF - 184K]
2010-2011 Budget Highlights [ 47.30 KB]
2011-12
budget shows a healthy
savings account and invests in Yukon’s future
News Release
February 3, 2011
WHITEHORSE—The Government of Yukon’s 2011-12 Capital and Operations
and Maintenance budget, totalling $1 billion and $89 million, was tabled in
the legislative assembly today by Premier and Finance Minister Dennis Fentie.
(...) Yukon is the first jurisdiction in Canada to table a surplus budget, along
with a healthy savings account in 2011-12.
Source:
Yukon Department of Finance
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TD Bank Financial Group
Analysis of the Budget:
FOUR
CONSECUTIVE YEARS OF SURPLUSES
2011 Yukon Budget
February 3, 2011
The 2011 Yukon budget was released yesterday. In its package, the government
provided estimates for its medium-term fiscal plan. A deficit of $20 million
remains the target for FY 10-11. Four consecutive years of surpluses are then
anticipated in the amount of $38 million in FY 11-12, $29 million in FY 12-13,
$28 million in FY 13-14 and FY 14-15. These surpluses are in the order of 1-2%
of territorial GDP. By returning to fiscal order in FY 11-12, the territory
becomes the first jurisdiction in Canada to convert its deficit into a surplus.
In addition, the territory does not hold any debt, an accomplishment only Alberta
shares.
Source:
2011 Federal, Provincial
and Territorial Budgets
[ TD Bank Financial Group ]
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Media:
Yukon
tables $1B pre-election budget
February 3, 2011
Yukon Premier Dennis Fentie has released his third $1-billion budget, as his
Yukon Party government prepares for an election later this year.
Source:
CBC Canada North
- Go to the Yukon Links page:
http://www.canadiansocialresearch.net/yk.htm
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