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Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland gets a standing ovation while presenting the budget on Thursday.. All it took was a war, runaway inflation and a housing crisis to get there. As an author and journalist before becoming a politician, Freeland took aim at Putin. Since being elected, she has championed the passage of the Magnitsky Act in 2017, giving Canada the tools to punish human rights offenders. After Russian tanks crossed the Ukrainian frontier on Feb.
There can be a surreal quality to federal budget days. What, exactly, does $31.2 billion in new spending, a promise to build more affordable housing ASAP, and charging stations to power an electric vehicle revolution look like to you, anyway? Thursday’s budget promised measures that would help “maintain the integrity of the financial system, promote fair competition, and protect both the finances of Canadians and our national security,” including the creation of the Canada Financial Crimes Agency.Critical minerals are a key pillar of the budget. The government is proposing billions of dollars in new spending to encourage more mining of the minerals that will be crucial as the world transitions to a low-carbon economy.
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