Link To Online Version Of The Budget
March 30th, 2012 - 7:27pm
http://www.budget.gc.ca/2012/home-accueil-eng.html
Highlights:
- The age of eligibility for old age security will pass from 65 to 67 years old for all those born after 1958
- Health transfers to provinces will be reduced
- Approval processes for resource development projects (oil, gas, mines, etc.) will be shortened and weakened
- CBC and Radio-Canada lose 10% of their budgets and over 600 jobs
- National Film Board loses over 40 jobs and 10% of its budget
- Large reductions in aide to developing countries
- Scrapping of the Katimavik youth development program
- Nothing for public transit, affordable housing or integrating new Canadians
On a positive note:
- Automatic eligibility for old age security and the guaranteed income supplement (which the NDP has been demanding for several years)
- The elimination of the penny (which was in our electoral platform)