{"id":20818,"date":"2025-11-04T17:49:06","date_gmt":"2025-11-04T22:49:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.greenparty.ca\/?post_type=article&p=20818"},"modified":"2025-11-04T17:49:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-04T22:49:07","slug":"prime-minister-said-canadians-should-be-prepared-for-sacrifice","status":"publish","type":"article","link":"https:\/\/www.greenparty.ca\/en\/news\/prime-minister-said-canadians-should-be-prepared-for-sacrifice","title":{"rendered":"The Prime Minister said Canadians should be prepared for sacrifice \u2014 Greens ask: Who sacrifices? And who profits?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Ottawa \u2014 <\/strong>Elizabeth May, Green Party Leader and MP for Saanich\u2013Gulf Islands, joined by former Green MP and Housing and Disability Inclusion Critic Mike Morrice, highlight the winners and losers in the Liberal 2025 budget:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This budget is full of sacrifices for programs Canadians rely on \u2014 climate action and nature, and healthcare expansion \u2014 but not for billionaires, multinationals, and foreign-owned fossil fuel giants.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Canada’s legally binding climate commitment under the Paris Agreement is completely lost. So too the oil and gas cap is gone, as well as numerous climate-related programs, while oil and gas production is increased.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The budget\u2019s \u201cProductivity Super-Deduction\u201d is an accelerated capital cost allowance explicitly intended to reduce Canada’s marginal effective tax rate to be competitive with Mr. Trump\u2019s tax-cutting \u201cBig Beautiful Bill.\u201d \u201cLevelling the playing field\u201d by meeting the lowest international tax rates is a race to the bottom \u2014 never a winning strategy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A national electrical grid is a cornerstone for real decarbonization. The budget offers piecemeal tax deductions, but no federal strategy or leadership essential to bring the provincial players together.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Green Homes program has been abandoned because it was too popular \u2014 the new Build Canada Homes has no provision for retrofits of existing housing stock, the most effective way to reduce emissions from the housing sector.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThis budget sacrifices $56 billion in public services \u2014 like a program that helped folks in my community retrofit their homes and save money on their energy costs \u2014 all while foreign-owned fossil fuel giants and billionaires continue to make off like bandits,\u201d said Morrice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Losers in the budget are Nature, with no announced funding for meeting 30-by-30 commitments to protect Canada\u2019s nature, nothing for west coast salmon rehabilitation, no mention of the Indigenous Guardians program, and cuts to overseas development assistance when the world\u2019s poor need it most.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Adaptation to climate change is mentioned only in a commitment to lease four new fire-fighting aircraft \u2014 a tiny contribution to what needs to be a major nationwide effort.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A $484 million reduction in spending at Indigenous Services is not aligned with true reconciliation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Losers are Canada\u2019s small business owners \u2014 representing 50% of GDP and providing 66% of private sector jobs \u2014 small business is barely mentioned in this budget, overshadowed by \u201cProjects of National Significance\u201d (read: major corporations). \u201cThe \u2018backbone\u2019 of the Canadian economy desperately needs a chiropractor,\u201d said Green Small Business Critic Michael Holbrook.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

No funds to help Canadians who want to go electric. No cuts in tariffs that make solar more expensive for Canadians.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nothing to enhance the disability benefit to raise people with disabilities out of poverty.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The huge cuts in public services will cause years of pain.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On the plus side, Greens welcome funding for the CBC, $1 billion for supportive housing, the continuation of funding for the school lunch program, continuation of expanded dental care, high-speed rail, and the foreign credentials recognition fund. The Building Canada Homes program commits, as Greens demanded, to a clear definition of affordability. The Youth Climate Corps could be transformational, but as a two-year program at $40 million, it is at best a pilot project.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The big winners are the multinationals able to access the Productivity Super-Deduction \u2014 big foreign corporations like General Electric, Hitachi, and others lined up for billions in subsidies for unproven nuclear technology. Multinationals like Shell, Petronas, Mitsubishi, KOGAS, and PetroChina (disguised by the name \u2013 LNG Canada), and others able to gain Cabinet designation as \u201cprojects of national significance.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe bottom line for us as Greens is that, without amendments achieved through negotiations over the next few days, we cannot support this budget,\u201d said Leader Elizabeth May.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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For media inquiries or to arrange an interview: <\/strong>media@greenparty.ca<\/a>
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