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Budget 2023, announced on March 28, 2023, provides for more than $1 billion in new investments in official languages, bringing the total funding for the Action Plan for Official Languages 2023-2028 to over $4 billion over five years.
On June 29, 2021, Senator Pierre J. Dalphond tabled a motion recalling the commitment made in section 55 of the Constitution Act, 1982 to have a fully bilingual Constitution.
The Alberta government released an actuarial report by LifeWorks on a potential Alberta pension plan that said Alberta could provide similar benefits to the Canada Pension Plan (CPP) with significant lower contribution rates (5.91% instead of 9.9% for the base plan) given demographics and a large asset transfer from the CPP ($334 billion or roughly 60% of the CPP fund).
How much broadband funding has been provided to provinces and territories that do not have federal-provincial agreements?
What are the details of the Canada-British Columbia broadband partnership announced March 8, 2022?
What are the details of the Canada-Newfoundland broadband partnership announced on February 21, 2022?
What are the details of the Canada-Ontario broadband partnership announced on July 29, 2021?
What is the Government of Canada doing to connect underserved Indigenous communities to high-speed broadband networks?
Why is the Government not compensating low-income seniors who lost Guaranteed Income Supplement (GIS) benefits because they received the Canada Emergency Student Benefit (CESB)?
What is the Government doing to support seniors who do not have partners??