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The Keeping Canada’s Economy & Jobs Growing Act, introduced in October 2011, triggered a phase-out of the per-vote subsidy from 2012-2015. [27] The amount paid out to parties decreased from approximately $2 per vote in 2012 to approximately $0.50 per vote in 2015, the final year of the subsidy. [28] Contribution limits were increased in 2014.
Government debt securities provide a useful measure of government debt as they are a large share of government debt (76.2% in 2020), [13] and are relatively straightforward to measure. By contrast, the second largest debt component, employee pension plan liabilities, [ 13 ] are less easy to value as they depend on employee longevity and the ...
The government also announced enhanced security measures along the Canada–United States border. The policy shift created uncertainty for 100,000's of migrants already in Canada. International students, who often paid premium tuition rates with expectations of eventual citizenship, faced narrowed paths to permanent residency.
The Act has been amended many times over Canada's history. The office of the Commissioner of Lobbying of Canada is an independent Agent of Parliament responsible for administering the Lobbying Act and the Lobbyists' Code of Conduct (the Code) to ensure that the process is both transparent and ethical. [2]
At the end of the fiscal year, the government was surprised to post a budgetary surplus of $1.9 billion. [5] This however would later be overturned to a small deficit of $550 million due to improper accounting methodologies for the Government's unfunded pension obligations, as pointed out for years by the Auditor General. [4]
The Office of the Commissioner of Lobbying of Canada is an officer of Parliament of Canada who is responsible for achieving the objectives of the Lobbying Act that came into force in 2008. The office replaced the Office of the Registrar of Lobbyists. [3] The Lobbying Act mandates this office and its commissioner, who holds office for seven years.
The 1993 Canadian budget was a Canadian federal budget for the Government of Canada presented by Minister of Finance Don Mazankowski in the House of Commons of Canada on 26 April 1993. It was the fifth budget after the 1988 Canadian federal election and would be the last before the 1993 Canadian federal election.
The 2005 Canadian federal budget was the budget of the Government of Canada under prime minister Paul Martin's 38th Canadian Parliament for the 2005–06 fiscal year.It was presented on February 23, 2005, by Finance Minister Ralph Goodale.