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Save for the 2004 White Juan Blizzard, until 2020 there had never been a situation where multiple provinces made a province wide declaration. This changed during the COVID-19 pandemic where every province and territory made the declaration, opposing similar measures from the federal government.
Analysis by Oxford Economics estimated that 25% tariffs implemented across all sectors and predicted retaliatory tariffs would cause Canada's GDP to fall by 2.5% by early 2026, increase its inflation rate to 7.2% by mid-2025, and increase its unemployment rate to 7.9% by the end of 2025 due to an estimated 150,000 layoffs.
It was made independent from the Canada Health and Social Transfer programme on April 1, 2004 to allow for greater accountability and transparency for federal health funding. In the 2017/18 fiscal year, the Canada Social Transfer was projected to be $13.7 billion. The Canada Social Transfer is legislated to grow at 3.0 per cent per year. [4]
Freeland had headed a special cabinet committee on Canada-U.S. relations and was working closely with the 10 provinces to ensure a united response. Canada government adrift after finance minister ...
OTTAWA (Reuters) -Canada on Tuesday moved to end labor disputes at the country's two biggest ports, Vancouver and Montreal, citing economic damage and the potential for driving away trading partners.
In 2022 the Auditor General of Canada, Karen Hogan, conducted a review into the CERB fund and concluded that "the federal government effectively delivered emergency COVID-19 benefits during the pandemic" [18] but that "deciding to not front-end verification resulted in $4.6 billion in overpayments to ineligible individuals."
The 2023 Canadian federal worker strike was a strike by Canadian federal workers who are members of the Public Service Alliance of Canada (PSAC). The strike took place between April 19 and May 3, 2023, although the Treasury Board bargaining units ended their strike on May 1.
Freeland, who was appointed Canada's tenth deputy prime minister in 2019, following the re-election of Trudeau's government, and the country's first female finance minister in 2020, was often nicknamed the "minister of everything", and widely seen as a potential successor to Trudeau for the leadership of the Liberal Party.