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    • Budget 2021

    Trudeau gives Freeland the thumbs up after she delivered the federal budget in the House of Commons on April 19, 2021 (CP/Sean Kilpatrick)

    Budget 2021: The Liberal path out of the pandemic and back to work

    In the Liberals’ optimistic budget, recovery is coming. It will take extensions of key pandemic programs, plus childcare, job training, student grants and business supports.

    Freeland arrives to deliver the federal budget in the House of Commons on April 19, 2021 (CP/Sean Kilpatrick)

    Budget 2021: The Liberals’ massive, historic, very costly bet on childcare

    Childcare for an average of $10 a day within five years? The budget’s big offering is ambitious and essential, say experts. It will also be an enormous job to pull off.

    Freeland delivers the federal budget in the House of Commons on April 19, 2021 (CP/Sean Kilpatrick)

    Budget 2021: Welcome back, standard operating procedures

    Paul Wells: The budget focuses on the sort of things a government like Canada’s should be working on right now. But the big bet is on childcare—and the devil is in the details.

    An intensive care unit nurse takes a moment to write some notes during her shift at a Vancouver hospital on Dec. 4, 2020 (CP/Jonathan Hayward)

    The big issue in the next federal budget should be the Care Economy

    It’s Canada’s biggest economic driver, and our best pathway to a recovery. Here’s how governments can take it seriously.