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The Department of Finance Canada (French: Ministère des Finances Canada) is a central agency of the Government of Canada. The department assists the minister of finance in developing the government's fiscal framework and advises the government on economic and financial issues.
The Washington metropolitan area, also referred to as the D.C. area, Greater Washington, the National Capital Region, or locally as the DMV (short for District of Columbia, Maryland, and Virginia), is the metropolitan area comprising Washington, D.C., the federal capital of the United States, and its surroundings.
In Canada, federal budgets are presented annually by the Government of Canada to identify planned government spending and expected government revenue, and to forecast economic conditions for the upcoming year. They are usually released in February or March, before the start of the fiscal year. All the Canadian provinces also present budgets.
The Canadian federal budget for the fiscal years of 2024–25 was presented to the House of Commons by Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland on 16 April 2024. [1] The budget's slogan is "Fairness for every generation", suggesting the government planned to help younger people.
In 2018, the government of Justin Trudeau introduced a new mandatory criteria for eligible employers and projects of the Canada Summer Jobs program, for which "the core mandate of the organization must respect individual human rights in Canada, including the values underlying the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms (Charter) as well as ...
As of 2024, the Washington metropolitan area is home to the headquarters of 20 Fortune 500 companies across a number of different industries. The DC area is also home to many satellite offices for major companies, and serves as the US or North American headquarters for many foreign companies, such as Volkwagen, Rolls-Royce, Airbus, Nestlé, and Lidl.
The Embassy of Canada in Washington, D.C. (French: Ambassade du Canada à Washington, D.C.) is Canada's main diplomatic mission to the United States. The embassy building designed by Arthur Erickson and opened in 1989 is located at 501 Pennsylvania Avenue Northwest, Washington, D.C., between the United States Capitol and the White House, just north of the National Gallery of Art. [2]
The legal basis for the Schedule Policy/Career appointment is a section of the Civil Service Reform Act of 1978), which exempts from civil service protections federal employees "whose position has been determined to be of a confidential, policy-determining, policy-making or policy-advocating character".