Question Period Note: Budget 2025

 Through Budget 2025, Canada’s new government is delivering an investment budget to build Canada Strong. This is a plan:

o To build the major infrastructure, homes, and industries that grow our economy and create lasting prosperity.
o To protect our communities, our borders, and our way of life.
o To empower Canadians with better careers, strong public services, and a more affordable life.

 We are building a stronger economy, so that Canadians can build their own future.

 Budget 2025 invests $55.4 million to create a new National Public Alerting System model to modernise Canada’s Public Alerting system to ensure timely alerts for natural disasters, extreme weather, security threats, and Amber Alerts to protect Canadians.

 Canadians across the country have seen the devastation of increasingly severe wildfire seasons across the country, which are having lasting impacts on many. Protecting our communities from these devastating wildfires requires bold approaches and committed, coordinated action from all levels of government.

 This Budget’s $257.6 million allocation to lease four aircraft to strengthen provincial and territorial aerial firefighting capacity and to better respond to increasingly severe wildfire seasons will enhances this important emergency management function.

 The Budget also provides fundings for building disaster resilience. The government will consult insurers and stakeholders to improve financial system stability and insurance resiliency against extreme events like earthquakes.

 These measures reflect a commitment to transformative change in emergency management systems to prevent and respond effectively to critical incidents and mass casualty events.

 By working closely with provinces, territories, and Indigenous partners, we are building resilience and ensuring Canadians have the support they need when it matters most.

o Budget 2025, tabled November 4, 2025, announced a number of measures that have implications for the Public Safety Portfolio, including:

o Providing $55.4 million over four years, starting in 2026-27 and $13.4 million ongoing to Public Safety Canada to support a new National Public Alerting System model, ensuring Canadians continue to receive Amber Alerts and warnings of imminent natural disasters, extreme weather events and security threats so they can take action to protect themselves and their communities.

o Of note for other departments, providing $257.6 million over four years, starting in 2026-27, to Natural Resources Canada to lease four aircraft to bolster provincial and territorial aerial firefighting capacity; support for emergency management response and recovery activities on reserve through Indigenous Services Canada;

o Funding to Employment and Social Development Canada (ESDC) to create a Youth Climate Corps to provide paid skills training for young Canadians. This measure would benefit young people through additional employment and/or training opportunities in support of climate emergency and recovery response as well as climate resilience across the country.

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