Agri-food Innovation Council

Develop long-term investments in areas such as plant-breeding.

2/6/2020

Agri-food Innovation Council

Universities should be provided with the resources to realise strong agri-food research and innovation outcomes.

2/6/2020

Canadian Federation of Agriculture

Address deficiencies in Canada’s BRM [Business Risk Management] program suite, providing support for farmers to navigate ongoing trade disruptions and extreme weather events. This stability and risk management support is critical to the adoption of sustainable practices and renewable energy technologies on-farm.

2/6/2020

Canadian Federation of Agriculture

Build public trust in Canada’s [Pest Management Regulatory Agency] processes, enabling farmers to access the tools necessary to continually reduce their carbon footprint through sustainable agricultural practices.

2/6/2020

Canadian Federation of Agriculture

Develop policies and programs that economically value farmers’ stewardship practices and EG&S [Ecological goods and services], incentivizing farmers to invest ... further in practices that will return economic value while enhancing Canada’s natural capital.

2/6/2020

Canadian Federation of Agriculture

Formalize a whole-of-government approach under the Food Policy of Canada through an interdepartmental working group, with clear accountability to stakeholders.

2/6/2020

Canadian Federation of Agriculture

Budget 2020 [should] commit to risk management enhancements that would ensure farmers have access to meaningful tools to manage those risks beyond their control, in particular, restoring AgriStability coverage to its pre-2013 levels.

2/6/2020

Dairy Farmers of Canada

That other sectors under supply management as well as the dairy processors to be compensated to mitigate the impact of the recent trade agreements.

2/6/2020

Dairy Farmers of Canada

Conclude an administrative agreement with the American government to ensure that the export charges contained in the [Canada-United States-Mexico Agreement], which are triggered after a threshold on [milk protein concentrates, skim milk powder and infant formulas] has been reached, apply only to exports to the signatories to this agreement. In other words, it would only apply for the United States and Mexico and would not apply worldwide.

2/6/2020

Dairy Farmers of Canada

[Continue] to provide dairy farmers with the remaining seven years of compensation in the form of direct payments to mitigate the effects of the agreements with the transpacific countries and the European Union, and [include] the total amount ... in the Main Estimates for Budget 2020.

2/6/2020

Dairy Farmers of Canada

[Fulfill] the commitment to fully and fairly compensate dairy producers to mitigate the impact of the [Canada-U.S.-Mexico Agreement], in accordance with the recommendations made by the Producer Task Force and established by the government following the announcement of the same trade agreement.

2/6/2020

Équiterre

[Review] risk management programs [so that they] encourage [agricultural] producers to adopt soil-regenerating practices.

2/6/2020

Green Budget Coalition

Enhancing fisheries stock assessment, fisheries monitoring capacity, and ensuring fisheries data transparency - $175 million over five years.

2/4/2020

Green Budget Coalition

$119 million per year for [the] next five years to improve the sustainability, resilience and competitiveness of Canada’s agricultural sector [allocated between] Agri‑Environmental Programs: $94 million per year; R&D in Regenerative Agriculture: $16 million per year; Support an important scientific asset by building facility for National Insect Collection: $9 million/year.

2/4/2020

Les Producteurs de lait du Québec

[With respect to the $2 billion in compensation provided to dairy framers related to free trade agreements,] we are asking the government to specify the terms and conditions by which this commitment will be met.

2/3/2020

Canadian Juries Commission

[Improve and support jury duty with a $20 million investment to the Canadian Juries Commission].

2/6/2020

Imagine Canada

If there are ... new initiatives to help businesses and organizations take steps to reduce their climate impact, ... ensure that charities and non-profits are eligible, that communications efforts [do not] imply exclusion of charities and non-profits and that program design [does not] inadvertently make those initiatives irrelevant to sector organizations.

2/4/2020

Imagine Canada

Provide Statistics Canada with the resources and mandate to compile and publish data on [the charitable sector].

2/4/2020

Vanier Institute of the Family

It would be nice if you found some funds for the Vanier Institute in [the] budget.

2/5/2020

Canadian Association of Retired Persons

Ensure that resources [for caregiving and housing] are directed into communities to provide much needed respite care, training and additional supports.

2/4/2020

Canadian Association of Retired Persons

Support caregivers by working with the provinces to align provincial employment standards with [Employment Insurance] benefits and by increasing the Family Caregiver Benefit [maximum period] from 15 to 27 weeks.

2/4/2020

Canadian Association of Retired Persons

Change the [Compassionate Care Benefit] requirement ... that a family member must be facing significant risk of death by including people who are critically ill.

2/4/2020

Canadian Association of Retired Persons

Make the Canada Caregiver ... Credit a refundable tax credit.

2/4/2020

Child Care Advocacy Association of Canada

Establish and fund a federal childcare Secretariat to lead and coordinate the federal government’s childcare work.

2/6/2020

Child Care Advocacy Association of Canada

Increase spending on child are by an additional $1 billion each year over 10 years to meet international benchmarks.

2/6/2020

Child Care Advocacy Association of Canada

Negotiate bilateral funding agreements with the provinces and territories—agreements that will simultaneously raise the quality of childcare by lifting up the wages, working conditions and education of the childcare workforce; increase access by substantially increasing the supply of high quality, inclusive, flexible licensed childcare for all age groups, using a publicly-planned and managed approach; and make childcare affordable for parents by providing direct operating funding to services.

2/6/2020

Child Care Advocacy Association of Canada

Pass legislation that enshrines Canada’s commitment to childcare with an entitlement for all children. The legislation should set out the principles, conditions and accountability mechanisms for federal transfer payments to provinces and territories.

2/6/2020

Réseau FADOQ

Amend the caregiver [tax] credit so that this tax measure becomes a refundable tax credit.

2/6/2020

Réseau FADOQ

Raise the maximum weekly earnings threshold for caregiver benefits so that the amount granted is more in line with the income of these beneficiaries.

2/6/2020

Réseau FADOQ

Use an index other than the Market Basket Measure to set the official poverty line in Canada.

2/6/2020

Beer Canada

Recalibrate the schedule of excise rates to spark investment in no and low-alcohol beers.

2/6/2020

Beer Canada

Beer within the range of 0.5% ABV to no more than 2.5% ABV [should] have one-quarter of the top excise duty rate applied, while beer over 2.5% ABV but not more than 3.5% ABV [should] have half the top excise rate applied. The top excise rate [should] apply to beer over 3.5% ABV.

2/6/2020

Beer Canada

No-alcohol beer [should] be exempt from excise tax.

2/6/2020

Canadian Automobile Dealers Association

[If the government implements a 10% luxury tax on cars over $100,000, grant] sufficient time for the automotive sector to adapt its … supply chains, ... assess it as a progressive tax, wherein only the marginal amount over $100,000 is taxed at 10%, ... exempt any electrified vehicles [and] avoid a redundant tax-on-tax-on-tax situation [in British Columbia].

2/4/2020

Canadian Cancer Society

Increase in the federal tobacco tax which has proven to be the most effective strategy to reduce smoking among youth.

2/6/2020

Canadian Cancer Society

Implement a tax on e-cigarette products to decrease youth vaping.

2/6/2020

Hotel Association of Canada

Amend the Excise Tax Act to require offshore short-term rental platform companies operating in Canada to charge GST/HST to hosts and guests on all service fees.

2/4/2020

Hotel Association of Canada

Amend the Excise Tax Act to parallel the treatment for ride-sharing by eliminating the use of the small-supplier threshold for short-term rental accommodations.

2/4/2020

Allan Lanthier (as an individual)

[The proposal] to limit the amount that a large corporation can deduct as interest expense to 30% of [earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization should not be implemented].

2/6/2020

Allan Lanthier (as an individual)

The draft legislative proposals that were tabled in June 2019 with respect to stock option benefits should be amended in the interests of simplification and fairness, and amended proposals should be released as part of Budget 2020.

2/6/2020

Aluminium Association of Canada

Update, in conjunction with the provinces of Quebec and British Columbia, the accelerated capital cost allowance measure [to] provide access to the aluminum sector which, unlike steel, does not have access to Class 53.

2/4/2020

Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers

Implement [fiscal measures] that will increase our competitiveness, including reforms to large corporation tax administration, interest expense deductibility and access to capital for small and medium enterprises.

2/3/2020

Canadians for Tax Fairness

Clos[e] regressive and ineffective tax loopholes [such as] the stock option deduction.

2/3/2020

Canadians for Tax Fairness

Large foreign e-commerce companies should be required to pay tax on the business and revenue they generate from Canadians.

2/3/2020

Canadians for Tax Fairness

Apply the GST and sales taxes to imports of all digital services including advertising.

2/3/2020

Canadians for Tax Fairness

Applying a digital sales tax to the revenue of large foreign e-commerce corporations.

2/3/2020

Canadians for Tax Fairness

[Place] limits on the interest payments that corporations can deduct from their profits, particularly to offshore subsidies.

2/3/2020

Canadians for Tax Fairness

[Remove] the ability for corporations to shift profits to offshore affiliates by requiring corporations to demonstrate that these affiliates carry out actual economic activity.

2/3/2020

Chartered Professional Accountants of Canada

Remain committed to the priorities identified in the Digital Charter, including the review and modernization of related legislation.

2/4/2020

Chartered Professional Accountants of Canada

Change the GST rules so that non‐resident vendors collect the tax on intangible property and services.

2/4/2020

Chartered Professional Accountants of Canada

Remain committed to and actively contribute to the OECD process to develop an agreed‐upon, principles‐based global framework for tax in [the digital economy].

2/4/2020

Confédération des syndicats nationaux

Create a temporary tax system to ensure that the digital giants are paying their fair share of taxes.

2/5/2020

Confédération des syndicats nationaux

Adopt the [Journalism and Written Media Independent Panel of Experts'] recommendation as soon as possible and provide greater assistance to print news media.

2/5/2020

Hotel Association of Canada

Ensure all corporations that operate in Canada through a digital presence pay corporate income tax on Canadian earnings.

2/4/2020

Hotel Association of Canada

Impose a tax on the Canadian revenue of major international [short-term rental] operators at the rate of 3% in lieu of corporate income tax.

2/4/2020

Hotel Association of Canada

Amend the Income Tax Act to require short-term rental platform companies to issue an annual information slip on gross earnings to hosts.

2/4/2020

Lazer Grant LLP

Finance used to draft legislation to fix a particular problem. Recent amendments seem to indicate the legislation is now being drafted to fix problems that have not yet been thought of. I'm not advocating a return to the old system, [but] I do think it might be possible to draft legislation that falls in between extremes [in order to avoid issues such as those related to recent changes to small business taxation].

2/4/2020

MNP LLP

Propose a consultation with various stakeholders as the interest deductibility limitation proposals are broad and complex.

2/6/2020

MNP LLP

Lower the combined corporate tax rate to a more competitive rate of 20%.

2/6/2020

Moodys Gartner Tax Law LLP

Decrease corporate tax rates.

2/5/2020

Moodys Gartner Tax Law LLP

Do not introduce the interest deduction limitation rule proposed in the Liberal election platform.

2/5/2020

Moodys Gartner Tax Law LLP

Repeal the [tax measures to support Canadian] journalism.

2/5/2020

The Mining Association of Canada

Extend capital cost allowance eligibility provisions for electric vehicles, created in Fall Economic Statement 2018, to include heavy industrial vehicles.

2/6/2020

The Mining Association of Canada

Introduce a substantial shareholder exemption for corporate reorganization for Canadian or foreign groups to be tax free.

2/6/2020

The Mining Association of Canada

Phase out dividend withholding tax to align Canada with multiple countries that have augmented their competitiveness in this respect.

2/6/2020

The Mining Association of Canada

Reduce the corporate income tax rate to achieve equivalency with the US rate for miners and exporters or reinstate a 33% resource allowance.

2/6/2020

The Mining Association of Canada

Reverse, reinstate and enhance mining tax reforms from Federal Budgets 2012/13, including augmenting the Accelerated Capital Cost Allowance (ACCA) to match the US.

2/6/2020

The Mining Association of Canada

Extend the tax measure announced in the 2018 Fall Economic Statement that enabled the full expensing for clean energy equipment to include all types of electric, trolly-assist and energy-efficiency conveying equipment deployed in Canada's mining sector.

2/6/2020

TMX Group Limited

[Introduce] a full exemption of publicly traded SMEs from the new employee stock option taxation regime.

2/4/2020

TMX Group Limited

[Expand] the flow-through tax regime.

2/4/2020

TMX Group Limited

Adopt a Federal Tax Credit program similar to British Columbia’s Eligible Business Credit program to encourage private sector investment into growth-stage companies.

2/4/2020

Canadian Alliance of Student Associations

[Allow] graduate students to access Canada Student Grants [...] at a cost of $58 million per year.

2/4/2020

Canadian Alliance of Student Associations

Allow international students to participate in an internship or co-op under their study permit, rather than [require] them to get a separate permit.

2/4/2020

Canadian Chamber of Commerce

Provide dedicated funding for the reskilling and upskilling of Canadians in a green economy.

2/4/2020

Canadian Chamber of Commerce

Enhance apprenticeship investments to promote skilled trades in renewable and cleantech industries.

2/4/2020

Canadian Federation of Agriculture

Establish and lead, in partnership with industry, a career promotion initiative for careers in agriculture and agri-food, including attraction of new Canadians. As a solutions-provider capable of sequestering carbon, the sector is capable of driving economic growth while reducing Canada’s carbon footprint, but needs access to sufficient, skilled labour to achieve these objectives.

2/6/2020

Chartered Professional Accountants of Canada

Evaluate the various programs and initiatives to promote skills training.

2/4/2020

Deloitte

To prepare Canadians to respond to the social changes that the new economy will bring, [the] government needs to ensure that all Canadians achieve a basic level of [artificial intelligence] and data literacy.

2/5/2020

Fanshawe College

Support a national campaign to promote skilled trades as first-choice careers.

2/4/2020

Fanshawe College

Invest in skills training to ensure that there are enough qualified workers to support energy audits, retrofits, and net-zero home construction.

2/4/2020

Réseau FADOQ

Establish a tax credit for private sector organizations that provide training for experienced workers.

2/6/2020

Technation

[Create a] diverse, skilled and educated workforce [by increasing] the number of employed highly-qualified ICT professionals [and] the proportion of women and Indigenous Canadian employed. [As well as conducting] national/regional consultation and strategy development projects, develop and conduct a four-year national/regional ICT career awareness and comprehension program, support the Business/ Higher Education Roundtable Work-Integrated Learning recommendations, consult with Indigenous organisations, expand Student Work Placement Program, review current Canadian and global best practices for the use of educational technologies, develop strategies to encourage underrepresented groups to participate in the [Information and Communications Technology] workforce, [and] invest in skills programs that help Canadians succeed.

2/6/2020

Western University

[Create] the [$2 billion] Green Campus Investment and Innovation Fund [which] would support projects that increase the energy efficiency of university campuses and decrease their carbon footprint.

2/4/2020

Business Council of Canada

[Increase] immigration inflows to build the future labour force.

2/5/2020

Canadian Cancer Society

Extend the Employment Insurance sickness benefit.

2/6/2020

Canadian Steel Producers Association

Work in partnership with Canada’s steel sector to address current and future labour and skills shortages.

2/3/2020

Confédération des syndicats nationaux

Enhance the Employment Insurance (EI) program by adopting a hybrid standard that would make people eligible for EI after 420 hours or 12 insurable weeks of work. The minimum number of weeks of benefits payable should be raised to 35 and the replacement rate to 60% of the maximum insurable earnings.

2/5/2020

Conseil national des chômeurs et chômeuses

The sickness benefits [of Employment Insurance] ... should be extended to 50 weeks for those facing a serious illness.

2/5/2020

Conseil national des chômeurs et chômeuses

[The] pilot project for seasonal workers in 13 administrative regions ... [should] better [target] seasonal employees in these regions, [include] an exception eligibility criterion for these seasonal workers set at 420 hours of work, ... [and] be extended to Indigenous communities with high unemployment rates.

2/5/2020

Fanshawe College

[Enhance] the Youth Employment and Skills Strategy and the Canada Summer Jobs program.

2/4/2020

Hotel Association of Canada

Provide sustainable, long term investment to support programs focused on connecting under-represented Canadians including youth, Indigenous Peoples and women, to available jobs in the accommodations sector.

2/4/2020

Hotel Association of Canada

Develop and implement a program to address the seasonal shortages in the accommodation sector through intra-brand employee exchanges, or bilateral agreements with suitable countries.

2/4/2020

Hotel Association of Canada

Review and update the Temporary Foreign Worker Program through the lowering of application fees, streamlined re-application for workers and the establishment of a pathway to permanent residency.

2/4/2020

Hotel Association of Canada

Replicate the new three-year immigration pilot program for the agri-food sector – which provides temporary foreign workers the opportunity to become permanent residents - for the accommodation sector.

2/4/2020

Réseau FADOQ

[Extend] the EI benefit period to a maximum of 52 weeks for family caregivers.

2/6/2020

Réseau FADOQ

Actively support experienced workers to encourage them to stay in the labour market, through ongoing training and orientation/ employment reintegration services.

2/6/2020

Réseau FADOQ

Establish a grant for businesses to cover probation periods for experienced workers or retain experienced workers over 65.

2/6/2020

Tourism Industry Association of Canada

Use industry labour need as the principal determiner to access all immigration streams, regardless of skill level.

2/5/2020

Advanced Biofuels Canada

Establish a comprehensive, long-term Canadian Clean Fuel Strategy [that would set] clear emission reduction and economic development goals for non-fossil clean fuels over 2020 to 2030, firm differentiated targets for clean fuel production and use in Canada [and] Clean Fuel Standard regulations.

2/4/2020

Advanced Biofuels Canada

Commit core funding over 2020–2030 to directed initiatives within [the Strategic Innovation Fund and the Canadian Infrastructure Bank] to attract private capital investment to build clean fuel production capacity and infrastructure.

2/4/2020

Advanced Biofuels Canada

Commit support over 2020–2030 to expand Canada’s clean fuel technology and innovation systems through targeted use of measures, such as refundable tax credits, accelerated capital cost allowance, clean growth capital grants, and core applied research funding.

2/4/2020

Advanced Biofuels Canada

[Reduce] carbon pollution through: reduced emissions from the production and refining of crude oil and bitumen, increased market use of renewable and synthetic (non-fossil) liquid fuels, [and] focused, long-term structural support for an orderly market transition.

2/4/2020

Advanced Biofuels Canada

Establish differentiated five-year goals for the production of each class of non-fossil clean fuels (liquid, gaseous, solid) and the sale of electric vehicles in Canada over 2025 to 2050.

2/4/2020

Advanced Biofuels Canada

Establish a new Clean Fuel Fund administered by [Western Economic Diversification Canada].

2/4/2020

Advanced Biofuels Canada

Identify clear, science-based eligibility, to amend the Income Tax Act [to] reduce corporate taxes … for companies that manufacture zero-emission technologies.

2/4/2020

Advanced Biofuels Canada

Conduct a review of Crown agencies and programs ... that impact capital investment in and operation of clean fuel production facilities, distribution and use infrastructure, including [electric vehicle] charging stations.

2/4/2020

Advanced Biofuels Canada

Conduct [a] review of existing or new fiscal programs, and tax measures under the Income Tax Act, that impact private sector capital investment in and operation of clean fuel production facilities and distribution and use infrastructure ... to better align tax policies and fiscal programs to attract clean fuel capital investment and support electric vehicle adoption in Canada, [as well as] to support investment in clean fuel technology research and development.

2/4/2020

Association of Home Appliance Manufacturers Canada

Enact the proposed energy efficiency regulations that were announced in Budget 2017.

2/4/2020

Association of Home Appliance Manufacturers Canada

Update the Energy Efficiency Act to streamline its process in order to allow, when appropriate, timely regulatory alignment with other jurisdictions.

2/4/2020

Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers

For the government to work collaboratively with the oil and gas sector and position Canada to be the global barrel of choice.

2/3/2020

Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers

That the federal government launch an innovation and industrial strategy table involving industry and the ministries of Finance, NRCan, ECCC and Innovation and Economic Development.

2/3/2020

Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers

That the Department of Finance affirm that existing oil and gas tax measures are not subsidies.

2/3/2020

Canadian Automobile Dealers Association

[Preserve] the continental approach to new vehicle fuel economy regulations.

2/4/2020

Canadian Electricity Association

In conjunction with the provinces, territories and industry, complete a National Electrification Strategy and allocate appropriate resources for implementing it.

2/5/2020

Canadian Electricity Association

Develop a 10-year plan to assist with Canada’s energy transition, including developing an incentive program for the commercial deployment of energy storage, supporting the implementation of the [Small Modular Reactors] roadmap [and] addressing the cumulative burden of regulations on the electricity sector and ensuring that regulator mandates factor in economic considerations.

2/5/2020

Canadian Home Builders' Association

Support and expand home energy labelling on all resale homes using its EnerGuide Rating System.

2/5/2020

Canadian Home Builders' Association

Introduce a permanent renovation tax credit, based on the EnerGuide Rating System.

2/5/2020

Canadians for Tax Fairness

Eliminate subsidies to the fossil fuel industry.

2/3/2020

Climate Action Networks Canada

Follow-through with … G7 commitments to phase-out fossil fuel subsidies by 2025.

2/5/2020

Confédération des syndicats nationaux

Stop promoting fossil fuel production to honour its commitments under the Paris Agreement, especially by phasing out fossil fuel subsidies by 2025.

2/5/2020

Green Budget Coalition

Implement second round of federal Smart Grid program focusing on deployment of community renewable energy technologies such as community scale storage and virtual net metering (community solar). $100 million over five years.

2/4/2020

Green Budget Coalition

Support development of tools that new community energy enterprises need ($9 million over three years), including: Guidance on how to raise community capital, including (RRSP and TFSA eligible) community bonds and preference share sales.

2/4/2020

Green Budget Coalition

Support development of tools that new community energy enterprises need ($9 million over three years), including: Templates for Power Purchase Agreements for sale of clean energy from community energy projects to individual customers.

2/4/2020

Green Budget Coalition

Support development of tools that new community energy enterprises need ($9 million over three years), including: Virtual net metering protocols for marketing and sale of clean energy from community sources to multiple customers.

2/4/2020

Green Budget Coalition

Fund targeted federal programs to establish community energy programs in low‑income and vulnerable communities. $50 million over five years.

2/4/2020

Green Budget Coalition

Legislating a timeline for phase-out of remaining tax deductions for fossil fuel exploration and production as well as other non-tax supports to fossil fuel industry.

2/4/2020

Green Budget Coalition

Committing to not introduce new subsidies for fossil fuels, including not spending additional funds on expansion of Trans Mountain pipeline.

2/4/2020

Green Budget Coalition

Comprehensively consider available financing options for energy efficient buildings, including loan guarantees, dedicated Canada Infrastructure Bank funding, and creating new National Green Bank.

2/4/2020

Green Budget Coalition

Promote community investment by individual citizens by promoting co-operative business model and other community investment options. $10 million over five years.

2/4/2020

Insurance Bureau of Canada

Funding is needed for a home retrofits program that addresses flood resilience as well as energy efficiency.

2/3/2020

Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami

Develop an Arctic renewable energy fund with an initial investment of $500 million over five years to support renewable energy projects and initiatives.

2/6/2020

Morgan Construction and Environmental Inc.

[Streamline resource regulations to enable oil producers to compete on a global scale].

2/6/2020

Morgan Construction and Environmental Inc.

Amend Bill C-69 (An Act to enact the Impact Assessment Act and the Canadian Energy Regulator Act, to amend the Navigation Protection Act and to make consequential amendments to other Acts) [to promote economic activity and growth in Canada's resource sector]

2/6/2020

Morgan Construction and Environmental Inc.

Approve the Teck Frontier Project [which is a proposed oil sands mine in northeastern Alberta].

2/6/2020

The Mining Association of Canada

Develop a funding mechanism through Global Affairs Canada to augment EDC financing with additional funding to scale renewable power solutions to connect communities.

2/6/2020

The Mining Association of Canada

Incorporate [Emissions Intensive Trade Exposed] EITE protections in any Clean Fuel Standard being considered.

2/6/2020

The Mining Association of Canada

Renew and expand from previous levels the Geo-mapping for Energy and Minerals (GEM) program, to $200 million over five years to locate the next generation of Canadian mines.

2/6/2020

Assembly of First Nations

[Invest $13 billion over five years in environmental initiatives, including in green infrastructure, clean energy solutions and First Nations-led conservation].

2/5/2020

Assembly of First Nations

Support the establishment and maintenance of Indigenous Protected and Conserved Areas to support Canada’s international biodiversity commitments to 2020 and beyond.

2/5/2020

Assembly of First Nations

Affirm and support First Nations Inherent and Treaty rights to develop and implement environmental regulations, impact assessment regimes as well as climate adaptation and mitigation strategies.

2/5/2020

Association of Home Appliance Manufacturers Canada

Earmark funds to modernize and expand plastic recycling infrastructure across Canada.

2/4/2020

Association of Home Appliance Manufacturers Canada

Any potential bans on plastic packaging must consider if the packaging material is essential to the proper delivery or functioning of the consumer product and if there are any alternatives that will work in all climates and in all circumstances.

2/4/2020

Business Council of Canada

[Develop] a national resource and climate strategy.

2/5/2020

Barbara Zvan (as an individual)

Implement the Recommendations of the Expert Panel on Sustainable Finance [recommendations to transition Canada to a low carbon, resilient economy, realizing Canada’s 2030 and mid-century objectives]

2/3/2020

Barbara Zvan (as an individual)

Supporting the efforts that are already underway at [the Office of the Superintendent of Financial Institutions] and Bank of Canada in terms of bringing [sustainable finance] into the regulatory framework.

2/3/2020

Barbara Zvan (as an individual)

Shift Canada's climate change conversation from burden to opportunity.

2/3/2020

Barbara Zvan (as an individual)

[Create] a sustainable finance action council.

2/3/2020

Barbara Zvan (as an individual)

Creating a data analytics hub can be something that can be done collaboratively with both government and private industry to help ease the burden and the effort that's required to do climate analysis and to change it into business analytics.

2/3/2020

Canadian Automobile Dealers Association

[Allocate] additional funding to the national incentive program for zero-emission vehicles.

2/4/2020

Canadian Automobile Dealers Association

[Launch] a national [zero-emission vehicle] public awareness campaign.

2/4/2020

Canadian Chamber of Commerce

Work ... with the business community in developing a national circular economy strategy that will reduce costs, waste, and inefficiencies for businesses.

2/4/2020

Canadian Chamber of Commerce

Remain engaged in negotiations on Article 6 of the Paris Agreement recognizing that some of the most impactful opportunities for climate change mitigation are located outside of Canada’s borders.

2/4/2020

Canadian Chamber of Commerce

[Recycle] carbon pricing revenue to drive innovations, energy efficiency and clean technologies.

2/4/2020

Canadian Federation of Agriculture

Exempt fuel used for the purpose of heating and cooling livestock and for grain drying.

2/6/2020

Canadian Federation of Agriculture

Continue funding for research programs that support climate change adaptation and mitigation, through innovation. This requires increased use of model farms for climate change research.

2/6/2020

Canadian Federation of Agriculture

Engage farmers in the development carbon offset protocols that integrate on-farm carbon sequestration, recognize farmers’ historical contributions to carbon sequestration, and recognize broader EG&S [Ecological goods and services].

2/6/2020

Canadian Federation of Agriculture

Modernize approval of plant breeding varieties through a streamlined, risk-based approach that enables development and fast-tracking of crop variety technologies capable of enhancing carbon sequestration and climate change adaptation.

2/6/2020

Canadian Federation of Agriculture

It is further recommended that farmers be reimbursed for carbon tax paid on grain drying during the 2019 harvest.

2/6/2020

Canadian Steel Producers Association

[Return] revenues collected from the steel sector under carbon pricing schemes back to the sector to further efforts to transition to the low carbon economy.

2/3/2020

Canadian Steel Producers Association

Charge the established Canadian carbon cost to all imports from countries that do not have an equivalent national carbon pricing to ensure jurisdictions are not leveraging irresponsible environmental policy to gain unfair cost advantage.

2/3/2020

Canadians for Tax Fairness

[Provide] an additional $81 billion investments over the next five years [or] $16 billion per year in building retrofits, renewable energy and energy efficiencies in different industries, public transit and high speed rail.

2/3/2020

Canadians for Tax Fairness

Strengthen [the federal] carbon tax framework by limiting the preferences for large emitters [and] convert the cap and trade program to a transparent carbon tax but with border carbon taxes and rebates.

2/3/2020

Chartered Professional Accountants of Canada

Implement the recommendations of the Expert Panel on Sustainable Finance that are within federal jurisdiction [… by mapping] Canada’s long‐term path to a low‐carbon [...] economy.

2/4/2020

Chartered Professional Accountants of Canada

Establish a Canadian centre for climate information to improve the availability and reliability of climate data to facilitate business decision‐making.

2/4/2020

Clean Energy Canada

Put in place a dedicated fund from which cities and transit authorities can receive rebates towards zero-emission buses.

2/4/2020

Clean Energy Canada

Offer incentives for purchasing used electric vehicles. The purchase incentive could be retooled so that the scale of the incentive correlates with income level.

2/4/2020

Clean Energy Canada

Establish a low-carbon infrastructure fund to help municipalities and other jurisdictions that want these well-commercialized, less-polluting building materials in their infrastructure projects.

2/4/2020

Climate Action Networks Canada

Provide resources for regulatory and legislative processes related to Canada's net-zero by 2050 legislation and the development of a Just Transition Act.

2/5/2020

Climate Action Networks Canada

Empower local governments to take climate action by providing directed financial resources to municipalities, tying this to eco-fiscal policy implementation, and requiring full life cycle climate tests on expenditures.

2/5/2020

Climate Action Networks Canada

Incentivize municipalities to achieve carbon neutrality before 2050 by covering the costs of conducting emissions inventories, developing best practices for real-time [emissions] measurement and providing guidelines for identifying low-carbon jobs and encouraging growth in those sectors.

2/5/2020

Équiterre

[Implement] a nationwide Zero-Emission Vehicle (ZEV) mandate, coupled with the extension of the ZEV incentive program for the next three years.

2/6/2020

Équiterre

Complete the identification of subsidies to fossil energy production and consumption by the end of 2020 in order to establish a timetable for phasing out public support to the sector by 2022.

2/6/2020

Great Lakes Fishery Commission

For fiscal 2021/2022 and beyond, the Commission is asking Canada to provide $19.44 million annually to the Great Lakes Fishery Commission.

2/6/2020

Great Lakes Fishery Commission

[The Commission] should fall under the jurisdiction of Global Affairs Canada – not Fisheries and Oceans Canada – as [they] are an international treaty organization with a binational mandate.

2/6/2020

Green Budget Coalition

Invest $200 million over three years in training for Canada’s low-carbon building workforce.

2/4/2020

Green Budget Coalition

Additional funding for the Budget 2019-announced purchase incentives for electric and plug in hybrid vehicles, to ensure sufficient funding. $150 million in 2020.

2/4/2020

Green Budget Coalition

For heavy-duty vehicle de-carbonization: Establish financial incentives for fuel saving devices on heavy-duty trucks: $200 million over five years.

2/4/2020

Green Budget Coalition

For heavy-duty vehicle de-carbonization: Establish new financial incentives to support Canadian transit agencies in purchasing zero-emissions buses: $85 million in 2020.

2/4/2020

Green Budget Coalition

Expand Low Carbon Economy Fund to provide funding for feasibility studies to allow communities to assess their renewable energy potential and project options. $9 million over three years.

2/4/2020

Green Budget Coalition

At least $2.9 billion annually from 2020/21 to 2025/2026. This is the minimum that would constitute Canada’s fair share, which is considered to be 3-4% of the US$100 billion per year committed by industrialized countries under the Paris Agreement.

2/4/2020

Green Budget Coalition

$1 billion over four years (2020-2024) for Nature Based Solutions Fund (or broadened Green Infrastructure Fund) to support cost-effective actions that reduce land sector emissions, sequester carbon or furnish climate adaptation benefits, while also benefiting biodiversity conservation; and [i]ncreased work on carbon accounting in the land sector.

2/4/2020

Green Budget Coalition

$5 million over two years towards GHG reduction innovation fund to design, retrofit and test emerging technologies that save fuel and reduce GHGs and other pollutants.

2/4/2020

Green Budget Coalition

$15 million over five years, starting 2021 (when international HFO ban is in place), for Arctic shipping fuels transition fund to support HFO phase-out while preventing prohibitive price increases in communities relying on shipped goods.

2/4/2020

Green Budget Coalition

Continue to invest in conservation and protected areas to achieve 17% protection of land and freshwater and 10% of ocean by 2020 - $82 million in 2020-21, $78 million over 2021-24, and $212 million over 2024-2030.

2/4/2020

Green Budget Coalition

Commit to protecting 30% of both land and ocean by 2030 and invest in achieving these targets - $128 million in 2020-21, $295 million over 2021-24, and $642 million over 2024-2030.

2/4/2020

Green Budget Coalition

Necessary ongoing investments in protected area management - $257 million in 2020‑21, $590 million over 2021-24, and $1.3 billion over 2024-2030;

2/4/2020

Green Budget Coalition

$10 million in 2020-2021 to advance North American Waterfowl Management Plan implementation in support of achieving 17% protection of Canada’s land and freshwater by 2020.

2/4/2020

Green Budget Coalition

$40 million over four years to ensure that privately protected lands are properly managed for the long term.

2/4/2020

Green Budget Coalition

Establish a Wetland Restoration Program under Canada Nature Fund to restore lost and degraded wetlands and associated uplands in Canada, and to secure their critical ecological goods and services. $50 million per year for five years, matched by $50 million per year from non-federal government sources.

2/4/2020

Green Budget Coalition

A focused federal effort to restore and conserve Canada’s grasslands, to stabilize declining bird populations, conserve grassland mammals, reptiles and amphibians, many of which are at risk, and support sustainable management of grasslands by ranching communities. $20 million per year for five years, matched by $20 million per year from non-federal government sources.

2/4/2020

Green Budget Coalition

Marine spatial planning, including co-governance, marine protected area networks, National Marine Conservation Areas and conservation economy development. [The funding request is] $81.5 million in 2020-2021; $407.5 million over 2021-2025; Thereafter, $77 million per year, ongoing.

2/4/2020

Green Budget Coalition

Enhancing capacity to meet Species at Risk Act requirements to recover abundance of aquatic endangered and threatened species - $125 million over five years.

2/4/2020

Green Budget Coalition

$20 million over four years for protection of important wintering habitats and migration staging and stopover sites outside Canada for shorebirds and other migratory birds.

2/4/2020

Green Budget Coalition

$24 million over four years including $12 million for investments in science and conservation, especially monitoring and protection of seabirds; [and] $12 million for delivery of Species at Risk Act to reduce backlog in recovery strategies and action plans and implement recovery actions not yet acted upon.

2/4/2020

Green Budget Coalition

Ongoing chemical assessment, research and monitoring, and risk management activities beyond Phase 3 of Chemicals Management Plan: $100 million annually, starting in 2021‑22.

2/4/2020

Green Budget Coalition

Enforcement of Canadian Environmental Protection Act, 1999 and pollution prevention provisions in Fisheries Act: $50 million in 2020, then $100 million annually.

2/4/2020

Green Budget Coalition

Fulfilling obligations under Pest Control Products Act to: 1) assess risks from pesticides already in use, 2) analyse data collected by AAFC and ECCC in two key areas during pesticide exposure assessment, and 3) upgrade compliance and enforcement beyond currently limited approach of targeted oversight: $50 million in 2020, then $100 million annually for Health Canada’s Pest Management Regulatory Agency.

2/4/2020

Green Budget Coalition

$10 million over five years to [Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada] for initial pilot and annual data collection [on pesticide use].

2/4/2020

Green Budget Coalition

$500 million matching fund to support zero-waste business investment.

2/4/2020

Green Budget Coalition

$12 million over five years to prevent and recover abandoned fishing gear in marine environments.

2/4/2020

Green Budget Coalition

$5 million to map level of circularity in Canadian economy and assess future scenarios.

2/4/2020

Green Budget Coalition

Establish external expert advisory panel to provide strategic advice on environmental data collection and management issues. $3 million over three years.

2/4/2020

Green Budget Coalition

$2 million over three years to undertake an audit and inventory of existing geospatial datasets among federal departments and other levels of government.

2/4/2020

Green Budget Coalition

$125 million over four years in updated foundational geographic and landscape feature data to complete national habitat inventories.

2/4/2020

Green Budget Coalition

$16 million over four years to advance development of a robust, full accounting of Canada’s environmental assets.

2/4/2020

Green Budget Coalition

Additional $5 million per year ongoing for future data acquisition and analysis, and to expand Statistics Canada’s environmental statistics group’s sectoral capacity.

2/4/2020

Green Budget Coalition

The Coalition urges scaled up fiscal action to address the climate emergency, including eliminating fossil fuel subsidies and allocating major funding to nature-based solutions, building energy efficiency, transportation, community energy, international climate financing and marine shipping.

2/4/2020

Green Budget Coalition

[The Coalition urges scaled up fiscal action to address the climate emergency, including] a number of complementary measures, including on carbon pricing, the sustainable finance report, and a just transition for energy sector workers.

2/4/2020

Green Budget Coalition

The Coalition urges continued and ongoing investment in nature conservation and biodiversity with a focus on protected areas on public and private lands [and] habitat restoration.

2/4/2020

Green Budget Coalition

Investing in agri-environmental programs; research and development and a new facility for the national insect collection; and to improve the agricultural sector's sustainability, resilience and competitiveness.

2/4/2020

Green Budget Coalition

$16.5 million over five years to ECCC [Environment and Climate Change Canada] for water monitoring.

2/4/2020

Green Budget Coalition

$155 million over five years to facilitate provincial and Indigenous collaboration in regional and strategic assessments, establish advisory panel to inform regulations, policies and conduct of “bigger picture” assessments, and promote further collaborative assessments.

2/4/2020

Green Budget Coalition

$60 million over five years in public education and targeted compliance promotion [on supporting banning single-use plastics and enabling circular economy strategies].

2/4/2020

Green Budget Coalition

$15 million over two years for Transport Canada to [develop a] policy instrument to include domestic shipping in Canadian carbon pricing system; Develop national strategy to reduce black carbon emissions and air pollution from Canada’s shipping industry; Review, publish lifetime carbon costs of fuel for government-procured ships; [and] Develop national speed reduction regime for maritime shipping.

2/4/2020

Insurance Bureau of Canada

Immediately implement the Recommendations of the Expert Panel on Sustainable Finance … to transition Canada to a low carbon, resilient economy, realizing Canada’s 2030 and mid-century objectives

2/3/2020

Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami

[Provide] $10 million over five years to advance implementation of [National Inuit Climate Change Strategy] objectives.

2/6/2020

Northwest Territories Association of Communities

Ensure that adequate funding is being provided to territorial governments, Indigenous governments and local governments to ensure that they are well equipped to meet the climate change challenge.

2/5/2020

Northwest Territories Association of Communities

The design of any programs to support climate change in the North must be done in consultation with Northerners to ensure that they have uptake and are effective.

2/5/2020

Prospectors and Developers Association of Canada

[Ensure] that any new carbon price regime is revenue neutral, protects emissions intensive and trade-exposed sectors, and addresses the unique challenges faced by remote and northern regions.

2/5/2020

The Mining Association of Canada

Carbon revenues should be directed toward two specific areas: supporting the development of lower carbon technologies, and energy and fuel efficiency, with a particular focus on investment in research and technology improvements in the resource sector; and helping ‘exposed’ economic sectors and populations adapt to the costs associated with a carbon-limited future.

2/6/2020

Canadian Association of Retired Persons

Work closely with provinces and territories to ensure that the transfer of dollars to strategic objectives is not just absorbed into provincial health care dollars.

2/4/2020

Ian Lee (as an individual)

The Minister of Finance [should adopt] a general operating principle that going forward all programs must be targeted, not universal.

2/4/2020

Federation of Canadian Municipalities

Empower municipalities to better serve Canadians through modernized commitments in Budget 2020.

2/4/2020

Federation of Canadian Municipalities

Protect progress and build upon a stronger federal-municipal partnership.

2/4/2020

Green Budget Coalition

Disclosing costs of all federal direct spending and value of annual tax deductions claimed for exploration, development and production of coal, oil and natural gas, including costs associated with Trans Mountain pipeline expansion; and provide to Parliamentary Budget Office.

2/4/2020

Green Budget Coalition

Pursuant to Canada’s commitment in June 2018, proceed with a transparent and credible peer review of Canada’s fossil fuel subsidies with Argentina in 2019 that reflects these GBC recommendations.

2/4/2020

Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami

Budget 2020 should build on progress made in the last four federal budgets by continuing to implement an Inuit Nunangat fiscal policy in the allocation of Inuit-specific funding.

2/6/2020

Macdonald-Laurier Institute

[That the federal government] prioritize the creation of income over its distribution.

2/3/2020

Northwest Territories Association of Communities

Territorial funding transfers are required to preserve and renovate existing social housing units.

2/5/2020

Réseau FADOQ

Include in the current Canada Health Transfer formula a variable that takes into account the aging population of the provinces and territories.

2/6/2020

Réseau FADOQ

Index the Canada Health Transfer by 6% annually.

2/6/2020

Aluminium Association of Canada

Use government procurement to enhance the use of ... low carbon footprint solutions using materials produced right here in Canada.

2/4/2020

Canadian Steel Producers Association

[Establish] procurement policies and enabling tools that recognize and take in consideration the inherent carbon benefits of Canadian steel in domestic infrastructure projects.

2/3/2020

Confédération des syndicats nationaux

Ensure that Canadian content is featured in government procurement.

2/5/2020

Confédération des syndicats nationaux

Incorporate the Davie Shipyard into its National Shipbuilding Strategy to keep it up and running.

2/5/2020

Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami

Revise its procurement policy ... to enable and support corporations and businesses owned by Inuit land claims organizations and beneficiaries of Inuit land claims agreements to access no-bid federal contracts.

2/6/2020

Technation

Modernize digital services and procurement by digitizing public service operations, provide a mechanism ... for Government to engage with industry, [implement] a socio-economic development strategy, implement an annual refresh cycle for the federal procurement process, invest in secure and agile WiFi networks for government organizations, [and] modernize budget allocation cycles.

2/6/2020

Technation

Leverage new technology [by following] a cloud first policy, [supporting] cloud-native software development, [ensuring] interoperability of systems between all levels of government, [and adopting] Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning technologies.

2/6/2020

Technation

[Adopt] training curricula for new technology and offer it to all civil servants, [create] a culture of lifelong learning in the public service, [and] contribute to creating a partnership ecosystem of technologists in Canada.

2/6/2020

Assembly of First Nations

[Invest $1.25 billion over five years in the Women Entrepreneurship Strategy].

2/5/2020

Assembly of First Nations

[Work with AFN Women’s Council to develop and apply an appropriate gender-based analysis tool for assessing gender-based needs].

2/5/2020

Egale Canada

Review the recommended policy reforms in Egale’s National LGBTQI2S Action Plan and take immediate action to amend their outdated and discriminatory policies to advance Canada’s economic development.

2/6/2020

Egale Canada

[Adopt] inclusive policies and training across each of the 12 sectors in Egale’s National LGBTQI2S Action Plan, [which are health care, mental health, poverty reduction, housing and homelessness, employment access, education, sport inclusion, our seniors, justice reform, inter-sex rights, asylum system reform and international assistance].

2/6/2020

Egale Canada

Update outdated data collection terminology to be more inclusive for research across the 12 priority areas in the national action plan and engage community organizations in the research implementation, collection and reporting process.

2/6/2020

Egale Canada

Establish an LGBTQI2S Action Plan Implementation Fund of $12 million over two years to be allocated to civil society organizations.

2/6/2020

Alberta Chambers of Commerce

Avoid one-size-fits-all approaches … to any national pharmacare plan.

2/6/2020

Canadian Association of Fire Chiefs

That the federal government continue to support and clarify the expected outcomes from the federal framework for [post-traumatic stress disorder] and the $30 million over five years dedicated in Budget 2018 to public safety research and treatment.

2/4/2020

Canadian Association of Retired Persons

Fund innovation and modernization initiatives to ensure that the dollars spent on health care are achieving best possible outcomes.

2/4/2020

Canadian Association of Retired Persons

Fund initiatives with a focus on transforming existing care models for dementia, into emotion-focused models.

2/4/2020

Canadian Association of Retired Persons

[Implement] a universal, comprehensive, sustainable and evidence-based national pharmacare program [by 2022 and commit $3.5 billion to that end].

2/4/2020

Canadian Association of Retired Persons

Funding of vaccines [should] be a part of [a] pharmacare program.

2/4/2020

Canadian Cancer Society

Invest in pediatric cancer research.

2/6/2020

Canadian Cardiovascular Society

[Invest] $2.5 million each year for the next three years to improve care, eliminate expense of unhelpful components of care and enable a learning cardiac healthcare system.

2/6/2020

Canadian Doctors for Medicare

[Implement] universal, single-payer public pharmacare.

2/3/2020

Canadian Mental Health Association

Invest $1 million in the next year for [Canadian Mental Health Association] to conduct research into and develop tailored support for farmers impacted by climate change and $2.5 million over 3 years for CMHA to conduct research into and develop tailored support for rural, remote, northern and coastal communities vulnerable to climate change.

2/6/2020

Canadian Mental Health Association

Invest $4.5 million over 3 years for [Canadian Mental Health Association] to lead Canada’s transition to a climate-ready mental health care system, defined by nationwide access to programs and services equipped to address and anticipate the psychological impacts of climate change.

2/6/2020

Canadian Mental Health Association

Invest $5 million over 3 years in [Canadian Mental Health Association's Mental Health Promotion] programs to build Canadians’ adaptability, resilience, and coping skills and to prepare communities for a future with more frequent, serious and intense climate events.

2/6/2020

Canadian Mental Health Association

Immediate influx of $50 million to more seamlessly coordinate and replicate evidence-based services and programs. Such funding can bring more programs to schools, communities and workplaces across Canada.

2/6/2020

Confédération des syndicats nationaux

Introduce public and comprehensive pharmacare.

2/5/2020

Diabetes Canada

Invest $150 million in funding over seven years ... to support the implementation of a new national diabetes strategy based on the Diabetes 360˚ framework and ... facilitate the creation of Indigenous-specific strategic approaches led and owned by Indigenous groups.

2/4/2020

HealthCareCAN

Ensure a level playing field by allowing hospitals and health organizations to be eligible to compete directly for federal funding programs, like green infrastructure and innovation.

2/6/2020

HealthCareCAN

Grow investments in science to cover the full cost of research and enable Canada’s research hospitals to generate new insights, including the health impacts of climate change.

2/6/2020

HealthCareCAN

Invest in digital health and data platforms in Canada’s research hospitals and health organizations to improve patient care and support climate mitigation efforts.

2/6/2020

HealthCareCAN

[Renew and increase] the amount of funding from $50 million to $150 million for [Stream 4 of the Strategic Innovation Fund].

2/6/2020

HealthCareCAN

Expand the [Canadian Institutes of Health Research's Institute of Aging].

2/6/2020

HealthCareCAN

Continue to invest in the CAN Health Network.

2/6/2020

JDRF Canada

Implement a national diabetes strategy (Diabetes 360⁰) with specific outcomes for type 1 diabetes and include new funding for research aimed at curing, preventing and treating the disease.

2/6/2020

JDRF Canada

Ensure that various types of insulin are included under any National Pharmacare program.

2/6/2020

JDRF Canada

Support the creation of a national diabetes registry for patients with type 1 diabetes.

2/6/2020

Multiple Scleroris Society of Canada

[Invest] in comprehensive homecare for those unable to remain at home

2/5/2020

Réseau FADOQ

Establish a Canadian national prescription drug insurance plan that improves on Quebec's current public drug insurance program.

2/6/2020

Technation

Mandate patient-first health data sharing across the entire healthcare system, require health transfer funding supports and [sustain] digital healthcare innovation.

2/6/2020

Appraisal Institute of Canada

That mortgage renewals be exempt from the application of the stress test so that Canadians can obtain the most competitive rate possible within Federally Regulated Financial Institutions.

2/6/2020

Appraisal Institute of Canada

Work with provinces and territories to create a publicly accessible registry of beneficial ownership to help address money laundering in the real estate market.

2/6/2020

Association des groupes de ressources techniques du Québec

The government's additional requirements beyond the rules of the National Building Code [i.e. universal accessibility, energy-efficient measures and greener construction should be] subsidized so that they do not become a barrier to the development of much-needed housing for the vulnerable population.

2/4/2020

Association des groupes de ressources techniques du Québec

1.7 billion [would be required] to maintain the existing housing stock in the country.

2/4/2020

Association des groupes de ressources techniques du Québec

An additional $2 billion per year for the construction of new housing units [and] a quick agreement between the federal and provincial governments, with an investment of $70 million for Quebec, are needed.

2/4/2020

Canadian Association of Retired Persons

Provide protection for seniors in assisted living or long-term care facilities during periods of extended hospitalization to ensure they [do not] lose their housing.

2/4/2020

Canadian Association of Retired Persons

Extend the National Housing Strategy to develop housing supports for newly homeless seniors whose needs are not well met by traditional homeless shelters.

2/4/2020

Canadian Home Builders' Association

Work with Office of Superintendent of Financial Institutions to adjust the stress test to better align it with current market conditions by making it a declining rate stress test based on the mortgage term.

2/5/2020

Canadian Home Builders' Association

Re-introduce 30-year amortizations for insured mortgages for well-qualified first-time homebuyers.

2/5/2020

Canadian Home Builders' Association

Adopt federal policies and programs to help increase housing supply by leveraging transit investments and land write-downs.

2/5/2020

Canadian Home Builders' Association

Enshrine affordability as a core objective of the National Building Code.

2/5/2020

Canadian Home Builders' Association

Expand consultations [on the stress test] beyond just financial institutions to ensure industry voices are part of the review.

2/5/2020

Canadian Home Builders' Association

[Do] not go to extreme levels of energy performance in [building] code until they are affordable for consumers.

2/5/2020

Co-operative Housing Federation of Canada

Enhance the National Housing Strategy by making the National Housing Co-Investment Fund more accessible to non-profit housing providers.

2/5/2020

Co-operative Housing Federation of Canada

Recognize post-secondary students as a priority population in the National Housing Strategy [to allow student housing co-operatives to] access [National Housing Strategy] funding programs.

2/5/2020

Co-operative Housing Federation of Canada

Commit to protecting the long-term rental assistance programs.

2/5/2020

Co-operative Housing Federation of Canada

Invest in non-market housing [including] … a $300 million quick start co-operative housing development fund.

2/5/2020

Co-operative Housing Federation of Canada

Enhance the Federal Lands Initiative under the National Housing Strategy … [and] transfer $50 million in surplus federal land to the co-operative housing sector to develop new housing.

2/5/2020

Federation of Canadian Municipalities

[Incentivizing] landlords to repair and retrofit lower-cost market rental homes.

2/4/2020

Mortgage Professionals Canada

[Introduce] an exemption to the stress test [for] borrowers [who] have paid as agreed through their initial term [and] wish to move their mortgage at renewal.

2/5/2020

Mortgage Professionals Canada

Reintroduce an insurable 30-year amortization exclusively for first-time buyers.

2/5/2020

Mortgage Professionals Canada

If a reintroduced insurable 30-year amortization is not deemed appropriate … [increase the First-Time Home Buyer Incentive's] qualifying maximum income multiple to 4.5 times.

2/5/2020

Multiple Scleroris Society of Canada

Fund the development of appropriate housing through the National Housing Strategy.

2/5/2020

Northwest Territories Association of Communities

A long-term federal funding commitment for housing is critical to address the unmet housing needs of [Northwest Territories] residents.

2/5/2020

Northwest Territories Association of Communities

Affordable housing agreements must be flexible and respect provincial and territorial jurisdictions.

2/5/2020

Northwest Territories Association of Communities

Tax incentives or other measures must be used to stimulate new rental and affordable housing construction.

2/5/2020

Assembly of First Nations Quebec-Labrador

[Provide] long-term, sustainable and predictable funding for the implementation of [An Act respecting First Nations, Inuit and Métis children, youth and families and] provide for the creation of a regional authority to support communities and organizations that wish to develop their own laws.

2/4/2020

Assembly of First Nations Quebec-Labrador

Funding to support [the Indigenous Languages Act].

2/4/2020

Assembly of First Nations Quebec-Labrador

Take the necessary steps to strengthen First Nations elementary and secondary education through regional models that provide adequate, predictable and sustainable funding and promote good student outcomes.

2/4/2020

Assembly of First Nations Quebec-Labrador

Support First Nations by developing new regional First Nations responsible housing entities to manage housing and infrastructure programs [with an investment of $3.9 billion over 10 years].

2/4/2020

Assembly of First Nations Quebec-Labrador

[Provide funding for] justice initiatives and community-based justice programs such as justice committees in [First Nations communities]. 

2/4/2020

Assembly of First Nations Quebec-Labrador

It is essential that robust and culturally appropriate policing services for local First Nations governments be adequately funded … this funding [$200 million over five years] is for the enhancement and expansion of First Nations policing services.

2/4/2020

Assembly of First Nations

[Invest $3.5 billion over five years in post-secondary students support program, adult education, kindergarten to grade 12 and First Nations post-secondary institutions].

2/5/2020

Assembly of First Nations

[Invest $2.269 billion over five years in First Nations health, including health infrastructure and the implementation of the First Nations Mental Wellness Continuum].

2/5/2020

Assembly of First Nations

[Invest $721.5 million over five years in the On-Reserve Income Assistance Program].

2/5/2020

Assembly of First Nations

[Invest $12.6 billion over five years in First Nations infrastructure and $4.6 billion over five years in all-weather roads].

2/5/2020

Assembly of First Nations

Repeal the Safe Drinking Water for First Nations Act and replace it with legislation developed with First Nations that ensures all First Nations have access to safe drinking water and wastewater infrastructure.

2/5/2020

Assembly of First Nations

[Provide $23 million over five years for Additions-to-Reserve and $12.5 million over five years for Specific Claims loan forgiveness and Indigenous Services Canada to improve processing].

2/5/2020

Assembly of First Nations

[Invest $2.68 billion over five years in First Nations economic development, including in a First Nations centre for trade and access to markets, the Indigenous Skills and Employment Training Strategy and the “Leaving no one behind” strategy.

2/5/2020

Assembly of First Nations

[Provide $3.5 billion over five years for the implementation of the Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls Calls for Justice].

2/5/2020

Assembly of First Nations

[Invest $3.75 billion over five years in First Nations safety and security, including First Nations police agencies, community infrastructure and restorative justice programs].

2/5/2020

Assembly of First Nations

[Implement] the Indigenous Languages Act passed by the previous Parliament [with a $1.157 billion investment over three years].

2/5/2020

Assembly of First Nations

Implement An Act respecting First Nations, Inuit and Métis children, youth and families [$3.5 billion investment over five years].

2/5/2020

Assembly of First Nations

[Provide $3.5 billion over five years] for First Nations governance [that] would provide for institutional development, the creation and functioning of shared service organizations, recruitment and retention of qualified staff, and the strengthening of financial management, human resource [and] IT systems.

2/5/2020

Assembly of First Nations

[Invest $4.0 billion over five years in housing for First Nations].

2/5/2020

Canadian Mental Health Association

Invest $16 million over 4 years for [Canadian Mental Health Association] to work with Inuit, Métis and First Nations organizations and communities to build a stronger infrastructure for Indigenous leadership and participation in mental health care and to respond effectively to the disproportionate mental health impact of climate change on Indigenous peoples and communities.

2/6/2020

Child Care Advocacy Association of Canada

Continue to fund and support the implementation of the Indigenous Early Learning and Child Care Framework to ensure that all Indigenous children have access to spiritually enriching, culturally relevant, high quality childcare.

2/6/2020

City of London

Access [to funding from the Reaching Home initiative] would support immediate initiatives to open resting spaces, stabilization spaces, and supportive housing spaces in a matter of mere months [to the homeless indigenous population of London].

2/3/2020

Green Budget Coalition

$361 million annually, ongoing, for First Nations’ water infrastructure operations and maintenance.

2/4/2020

Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami

Social infrastructure investments are needed [in] … early learning and child care centres, … family violence shelters and transitional housing, … addictions treatment centres [and] social housing.

2/6/2020

Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami

Investment in Inuktut language and cultural instruction should be made as an Inuit-specific budgetary line item directed to Inuit land claims organizations, who can then direct service delivery agents to ensure that funds ... are drawn down in a manner that benefits Inuit.

2/6/2020

Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami

[Provide] per-pupil Inuktut funding for K-12 language of instruction in the Inuvialuit Settlement Region, Nunavut, Nunavik, and Nunatsiavut, that achieves equivalency in per pupil spending for French and English.

2/6/2020

Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami

[Provide] $50 million over five years to strengthen and expand Inuit teacher education programs in the four regions of Inuit Nunangat.

2/6/2020

Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami

Allocate funding directly to Inuvialuit Regional Corporation, Nunavut Tunngavik Inc., Makivik Corporation, and Nunatsiavut Government [for the implementation of An Act respecting First Nations, Inuit and Métis children, youth and families].

2/6/2020

Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami

Partner with Inuit to establish an Arctic Infrastructure Bank with an initial investment of $1 billion over five years to fund new infrastructure and mitigate the effects of climate change on existing infrastructure, and to ensure the funds are directed based on Inuit needs.

2/6/2020

Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami

[Establish] a capacity-building pilot program for Inuit community-based service organizations … [and] an Inuit Nunangat network to share information and best practices.

2/6/2020

Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami

Review of all federal business and economic development programs that support Inuit communities, organizations, business and individuals who wish to pursue commercial activities to ensure they meet the needs of all organizations and individuals.

2/6/2020

Northwest Territories Association of Communities

Provide sustainable funding for existing and new Aboriginal healing centres to address the physical, mental, emotional and spiritual harms caused by residential schools, and to ensure that the funding of healing centres in Nunavut and the Northwest Territories is a priority.

2/5/2020

Northwest Territories Association of Communities

Increase ... staffing levels in land claims negotiations to speed up and finalize agreements.

2/5/2020

Prospectors and Developers Association of Canada

Enhance the participation of Indigenous peoples in the mineral sector through: foundational investments that contribute to improved socioeconomic outcomes for Indigenous communities; targeted funds towards capacity building for skills and job training, entrepreneurship, economic development, and consultation capacity.

2/5/2020

The Mining Association of Canada

Increase funds for skills training and entrepreneurship to assist Indigenous Peoples in securing opportunities in mining.

2/6/2020

The Mining Association of Canada

Strategically deploy government procurement as a tool to drive Indigenous economic reconciliation.

2/6/2020

Alberta Chambers of Commerce

[Accelerate] the planning and permitting process for northern trade corridors.

2/6/2020

Business Council of Canada

[Prioritize] nationally significant infrastructure projects.

2/5/2020

Canadian Chamber of Commerce

[Provide] funding to the Canada Infrastructure Bank and the National Trade Corridors Fund for major climate resilient infrastructure and adaptation projects.

2/4/2020

Canadian Chamber of Commerce

Implement mmWave spectrum without delay to make smart cities a reality and allow businesses to use the Internet of Things for climate change mitigation.

2/4/2020

Canadian Electricity Association

Create a dedicated climate adaptation fund to increase resiliency to extreme weather and wildfires in critical energy infrastructure.

2/5/2020

Clean Energy Canada

Provide the infrastructure required to support electric transit buses from charging infrastructure to new retrofitted bus depots.

2/4/2020

Federation of Canadian Municipalities

Topping up the … Disaster Mitigation and Adaptation Fund.

2/4/2020

Federation of Canadian Municipalities

Prioritize new funding tools that will enable local governments to build better lives for Canadians.

2/4/2020

Federation of Canadian Municipalities

Launch a permanent funding mechanism for public transit.

2/4/2020

Federation of Canadian Municipalities

Support [the transition to] zero-emission [public] transit vehicles.

2/4/2020

Federation of Canadian Municipalities

Increase the GTF's (Gas Tax Fund) annual escalator from 2% to 3.5% [… to deliver on infrastructure projects].

2/4/2020

Green Budget Coalition

Consider providing funds to municipalities to help cover public transit’s operational costs (in addition to capital projects).

2/4/2020

Insurance Bureau of Canada

Funding is needed for targeted flood defence infrastructure through an expanding disaster mitigation and adaptation fund.

2/3/2020

The Mining Association of Canada

Advance the renewed Trade and Transportation Corridor Initiative northern funding from an 8 to 4-year horizon and recognize the unique challenges of remote and northern regions through a dedicated northern fund in the Canada Infrastructure Bank.

2/6/2020

City of London

[Provide] additional details ... as to how the federal government plans to partner with cities and communities [on public transportation projects].

2/3/2020

City of London

Connecting mid-size communities like London will require federal investments into VIA to expand the fleet and the service offerings for our people and for our businesses.

2/3/2020

Technation

Introduce a “Smart Infrastructure Lens” for all federal infrastructure investments.

2/6/2020

The Mining Association of Canada

Allocate capacity to [Natural Resources Canada] to support the collection, organization, interpretation and dissemination of resource sector rail freight performance and capacity data to facilitate evidence-based decision making.

2/6/2020

Agri-food Innovation Council

[Use] intelligent tax measures to create a favourable climate for investment in [clean technologies in the agricultural sector].

2/6/2020

Agri-food Innovation Council

[Incentivize] early adoption [of clean technologies] by producers [in the agri-food sector].

2/6/2020

Agri-food Innovation Council

Focus on initiatives that support cross-sectional technological innovation to link value in the agricultural sector to value at the level of population health and wellbeing, industrial sustainability and environmental protection, particularly measures to mitigate and reverse the effects of climate change.

2/6/2020

Agri-food Innovation Council

Funding must be targeted to cross-sectional programs, in which agricultural innovations can be leveraged horizontally to integrate with other industry verticals, particularly health, manufacturing and the environment.

2/6/2020

Agri-food Innovation Council

Steps should be taken to make existing programming more flexible and accommodate more than just traditional partnerships between industry and academia. Different partners such as the private sector, "early adopter" producers and industry consortia (from within and outside the sector) should be incentivized to work together.

2/6/2020

Agri-food Innovation Council

Develop mechanisms for strategic long-term investments in areas that do not fit easily into short-term granting cycles, and which require a greater length of time to develop, test and bring to market.

2/6/2020

Aluminium Association of Canada

Review the parameters of the [Strategic Innovation Fund] to reflect the need to modernize the plant fleet, maintain our competitiveness for the future and eliminate the administrative burden of managing existing incentive programs.

2/4/2020

Association of Home Appliance Manufacturers Canada

Establish the Plastic Technology Innovation Fund with an initial allocation of $200 million to further research and development of groundbreaking plastic technology applications in Canada.

2/4/2020

Canadian Chamber of Commerce

Adopt an “innovation box” regime that would reduce the corporate tax rate for income derived from patented inventions and intellectual property connected to new or improved cleantech products, services and related processes developed in Canada.

2/4/2020

Canadian Chamber of Commerce

Provide investors with a 30% refundable tax credit of up to $200,000 in eligible clean tech businesses.

2/4/2020

Canadian Chamber of Commerce

Establish a 15% refundable tax credit on eligible cleantech startups for angel investors [and] provide a tax exemption on cleantech venture capital gains.

2/4/2020

Canadian Chamber of Commerce

Reinstate the Scientific Research and Experimental Development depreciable property tax credit.

2/4/2020

Canadian Chamber of Commerce

Make flow-through shares available to all types of cleantech firms.

2/4/2020

Canadian Steel Producers Association

Provide significant financial support to create an innovation ecosystem that drives research, clean technology development, demonstration and adoption across the steel sector’s supply chain uniquely focussed on its transition into a low carbon economy.

2/3/2020

Canadian Steel Producers Association

The existing innovation effort by Canada’s steel, mining and coal sectors carried out by the Canadian Carbonization Research Association should be considered for additional funding support that accelerates the effort of this globally unique collaboration.

2/3/2020

Deloitte

If [artificial intelligence] is going to drive our economy, Canada needs to increase the quality and quantity of public data available to researchers and businesses.

2/5/2020

Deloitte

Help spur innovation by making more public data available in machine-readable format for commercial purposes and easier to use.

2/5/2020

Deloitte

To accelerate [the combination of public data with privately-owned data], governments across Canada can increase collaboration with the private sector to ensure that data is released in an algorithm-friendly, machine-readable format.

2/5/2020

Fanshawe College

Invest $40 million per year in Canada's network of college-based service providers to double the number of small and medium-sized enterprises engaged in innovation activity.

2/4/2020

Green Budget Coalition

$20 million over two years for R&D and sea trials to achieve 100% zero-emission vessels in Canadian inland waters by 2030.

2/4/2020

Green Budget Coalition

Aquaculture research, environmental protection standards, innovative technology research, monitoring, enforcement, and incentives for alternative production methods - $125 million over five years.

2/4/2020

HealthCareCAN

Create a new Economic Strategy Table dedicated to age-tech and the silver economy.

2/6/2020

HealthCareCAN

Build on the success of the Innovation Superclusters Initiative through the creation of an “Age-Tech Supercluster.”

2/6/2020

Intact Financial Corporation

[Investir] dans les écosystèmes d'intelligence artificielle au Canada.

2/6/2020

Technation

Expand funding for digital experiments. Create a government funding portal for digital experimentation under Innovative Solutions Canada, Innovation for Defence and Security and the Canadian Digital Service.

2/6/2020

Technation

Innovate contracts, terms and conditions to align with industry norms focusing on fairness, sharing in the allocation of risk, and opening the possibility of negotiations with bidders to access confidential inputs. 

2/6/2020

Technation

Modernize data classification and security requirements to allow a more efficient and effective process of incorporating the ICT workforce in building out the digital government.

2/6/2020

Technation

Invest in “Data for AI” projects , allocate increased funding to build test beds for data analytics and innovation corridors based on 5G, establish an engagement plan for roll-out of 5G networks, ... [and] continue to support the R&D of ICT sector.

2/6/2020

Technation

[Support] SMEs and scale-ups [by working] with ... industry experts to advance recommended adjustments to [Scientific Research and Experimental Development] program, standardise information collection about SMEs ... [and] review ... definitions of small, medium, and large enterprise.

2/6/2020

TMX Group Limited

Adopting a policy of “fairness for growth”, whereby the federal incentive programs afforded to Canadian private companies, or CCPCs, are equally offered to companies that elect to fund their growth through public venture capital, and the private investment sector.

2/4/2020

Western University

[Create] the Clean Future Research and Innovation Fund [which] would invest $200 million per year in mitigating and adapting to climate change while creating new business opportunities.

2/4/2020

Western University

[Create] a new fund to move ideas and intellectual property from our campuses toward the public, private and not-for-profit sectors.

2/4/2020

Western University

Strengthen [Canada's] role as a partner for international research collaborations.

2/4/2020

Alberta Chambers of Commerce

Allow companies mining lithium brine … to issue flow-through shares to raise capital.

2/6/2020

Prospectors and Developers Association of Canada

Create a mineral sector-specific funding program or tax incentive to encourage increased exploration specifically for minerals and metals that will enable the development of clean technologies.

2/5/2020

Prospectors and Developers Association of Canada

Provide funding targeted specifically towards innovation for exploration in areas such as: low emission and renewable energy technologies that reduce [greenhouse gas] emissions, increasing the reuse of water, and waste reduction.

2/5/2020

Prospectors and Developers Association of Canada

[Continue] to invest in the collection and dissemination of public geoscience data that drives mineral exploration, particularly in the north, and [renew] the Geo-mapping for Energy and Minerals and the Targeted Geoscience Initiative programs.

2/5/2020

Prospectors and Developers Association of Canada

Support geoscience mapping and innovation by … providing funding mechanisms and incentives to encourage the development, testing and adoption of innovative technologies and processes specifically for mineral exploration.

2/5/2020

Prospectors and Developers Association of Canada

Create a federal funding mechanism to help provincial and territorial governments undertake comprehensive mineral resource assessments, based on geoscientific studies.

2/5/2020

Prospectors and Developers Association of Canada

[Establish] an interdepartmental government-industry task force to investigate policy options and make recommendations to accelerate exploration and development of mineral resources.

2/5/2020

The Mining Association of Canada

Modernize the tax treatment of qualifying environmental trusts (QET) by extending the carryback period from 3 to 7 years, allowing the reclamation to be deducted at the consolidated level when incurred regardless of which mine is being reclaimed, and by making QETs tax-exempt until the distribution of funds.

2/6/2020

The Mining Association of Canada

Commit to a whole-of-supply chain approach, including supports for downstream market development and value-added production.

2/6/2020

The Mining Association of Canada

Enhanced funding for Natural Resources Canada's CanmetMINING to develop state of the art REE identification, extraction and refining processes, including from recycled existing mine waste streams.

2/6/2020

The Mining Association of Canada

Establish an interdepartmental joint government-industry task force to study, report and recommend back in one year additional policy options [regarding critical minerals].

2/6/2020

The Mining Association of Canada

Renew and expand from previous levels, the Targeted Geoscience Initiative to $50 million over five years to increase the life of Canada's exiting fleet of opertational mines.

2/6/2020

The Mining Association of Canada

Establish/improve mechanisms through which governments share a portion of the revenues generated from royalties, mining taxes and/or fees in their jurisdiction.

2/6/2020

JDRF Canada

Canadians with type 1 diabetes and other conditions requiring life-sustaining therapy should qualify automatically for the Disability Tax Credit.

2/6/2020

Multiple Scleroris Society of Canada

[In its report entitled] Taking Action: Improving the Lives of Canadians with Episodic Disabilities, [the Standing Committee on Human Resources, Skills and Social Development and the Status of Persons with Disabilities] made 11 … recommendations that now need to be implemented.

2/5/2020

Multiple Scleroris Society of Canada

[Make] the Disability Tax Credit refundable.

2/5/2020

Multiple Scleroris Society of Canada

[Change] eligibility criteria for the Canada Pension Plan Disability [benefits] and the Disability Tax Credit to include those with episodic disabilities using the new Accessible Canada Act's definition of disability.

2/5/2020

Multiple Scleroris Society of Canada

Implement the Accessible Canada Act to ensure a barrier-free Canada with a … focus on programs and service delivery, employment, built environment and transportation.

2/5/2020

Multiple Scleroris Society of Canada

[Increase] access to Health Canada-approved treatments as early intervention is vital … to avoid the … costs that result from unnecessary, irreversible disability.

2/5/2020

Peter Weissman (as an individual)

[Make] the tax system easier to navigate for people with physical disabilities and mental infirmities.

2/5/2020

Allan Lanthier (as an individual)

The Income Tax Act should be amended to facilitate the transfer of private corporation shares to family members and key employees.

2/6/2020

MNP LLP

All businesses, a farm or any other family-owned business [should] be treated fairly and equally when transitioning within a family.

2/6/2020

MNP LLP

Amend and/or expand the existing provisions of the Income Tax Act to allow families to engage in a bona fide succession and transition of existing businesses.

2/6/2020

MNP LLP

Implement incentives to enable parents to assist their children in purchasing homes without negative tax consequences.

2/6/2020

MNP LLP

Remove the $5,000 annual cap on tuition transfers to parents and provide for the introduction of grants or additional credits for students enrolled in targeted areas of investment.

2/6/2020

Moodys Gartner Tax Law LLP

Amend the [tax on split income] regime.

2/5/2020

Moodys Gartner Tax Law LLP

Introduce … changes to enable a fair succession of the family business and farm to the next generation.

2/5/2020

Moodys Gartner Tax Law LLP

Take a permanent pause on the implementation of the stock option proposals.

2/5/2020

Moodys Gartner Tax Law LLP

Do not increase personal tax rates.

2/5/2020

Moodys Gartner Tax Law LLP

Do not increase the capital gains inclusion rate.

2/5/2020

Réseau FADOQ

Lower the deductible for the medical expense tax credit from 3% to 1.5%.

2/6/2020

Réseau FADOQ

Make the medical expense tax credit into a refundable tax credit.

2/6/2020

Réseau FADOQ

Ensure that [Registered Retirement Savings Plan] or [Registered Retirement income Fund] withdrawals for medical reasons are excluded from a taxpayer's taxable income.

2/6/2020

Alberta Chambers of Commerce

Commit to regulatory streamlining and reducing overall [regulatory] burden.

2/6/2020

Business Council of Canada

[Modernize] the regulatory environment.

2/5/2020

Canadian Association of Retired Persons

[Make] the Ombudsman for Banking, Securities and Investments ... the single, unified and binding dispute resolution body for banking and investment services.

2/4/2020

Canadian Cancer Society

Implement an annual cost-recovery fee on the tobacco industry, to provide full reimbursement for the $66 million dollar annual cost of the federal tobacco control strategy ... We propose that companies pay a fee, based on market share, similar to the federal cannabis annual regulatory fee to recover $112 million annually by 2021.

2/6/2020

Canadian Chamber of Commerce

Ensure that carbon pricing is accompanied [by] a reduction in regulations to address competitiveness.

2/4/2020

Canadian Chamber of Commerce

Review the regulatory inefficiencies that slow the adoption of new technologies in the utilities sector and make grid modernization costly.

2/4/2020

Canadian Electricity Association

Align regulatory policies with provincial and territorial governments to allow for the implementation of electricity projects and innovations through the Regulatory Cooperation Table and Canada Free Trade Agreement.

2/5/2020

Canadian Electricity Association

Modernize the Electricity and Gas Inspection Act and Weights and Measures Act to reduce barriers to the deployment of innovative technologies.

2/5/2020

Canadian Electricity Association

Create a Regulatory Innovation Fund that can be used by provincial and territorial electricity regulators to minimize price impacts on customers while adopting new technologies.

2/5/2020

Chartered Professional Accountants of Canada

Work with provinces and territories to strengthen Canada’s anti‐money laundering regime, including through consistent beneficial ownership requirements and a new national framework around whistleblowing in the private and public sectors.

2/4/2020

Deloitte

Legislation must be updated to reflect the reality of today's [artificial intelligence] and data-driven economy [and should give] businesses a clear set of guardrails and consequences to operate within for the collection, storage and sharing of data.

2/5/2020

Green Budget Coalition

Need for regulatory departments to receive sufficient resources to meet … the legislative requirements for managing toxic substances, including pesticides, to protect the health of Canadians and [the] environment.

2/4/2020

Insurance Bureau of Canada

Foster the appropriate financial and regulatory environment for property and casualty insurers.

2/3/2020

Technation

Create a "one-stop shop" that allows businesses to access all government services and regulations at once [and] include tax and financial regulation in its "one-for-one" regulatory reduction rule.

2/6/2020

Technation

Review the effectiveness of marketplace laws and regulations.

2/6/2020

TMX Group Limited

Launch a tax force to do a holistic review of public company reporting obligations, with stated objectives of reducing regulatory burden on Canadian public companies and aligning with national priorities.

2/4/2020

Barbara Zvan (as an individual)

Incentivize [Registered Retirement Savings Plans] into sustainable finance.

2/3/2020

Canadian Association of Retired Persons

Eliminate mandatory [Registered Retirement Income Fund] withdrawals.

2/4/2020

Canadian Association of Retired Persons

[Create] a federal pension insurance program that insures 100% of the pension liability in cases of [corporate] insolvency [and is] fully funded by plan sponsors.

2/4/2020

Canadian Association of Retired Persons

[Amend] insolvency legislation to extend super-priority to unfunded pension liability.

2/4/2020

Canadian Association of Retired Persons

Commission a third-party study to explore alternative legislative and regulatory solutions that will ensure pensioners receive 100% of their pensions in the event of corporate insolvency.

2/4/2020

Canadian Association of Retired Persons

Boost Old Age Security by 10% for people 75 and older.

2/4/2020

Canadian Association of Retired Persons

Increase the Canada Pension Plan [survivor's pension] by 25% for people 65 and older ... from 60% to 75%.

2/4/2020

Réseau FADOQ

When a person dies, Old Age Security payments [should] be extended for a period of three months for the benefit of the surviving spouse.

2/6/2020

Réseau FADOQ

[Increase] Old Age Security benefits for seniors aged 75 and over by 10 per cent.

2/6/2020

Réseau FADOQ

Increase by a minimum of $50 per month per senior the amount granted through the Guaranteed Income Supplement.

2/6/2020

Réseau FADOQ

[Increase] Canada Pension Plan survivor benefits by 25%.

2/6/2020

Réseau FADOQ

Establish a national policy on aging.

2/6/2020

Réseau FADOQ

Ensure that [Registered Retirement Savings Plan] or [Registered Retirement income Fund] withdrawals made for medical reasons are also included in the earnings exemptions under the Guaranteed Income Supplement program.

2/6/2020

Agri-food Innovation Council

[Expand] rural broadband.

2/6/2020

Canadian Chamber of Commerce

Adopt a Pan-Territorial Infrastructure Strategy.

2/4/2020

Canadian Chamber of Commerce

Create a dedicated Northern Infrastructure Fund.

2/4/2020

Canadian Chamber of Commerce

Develop strategies to implement all-season road networks to improve transportation infrastructure in Indigenous and remote communities.

2/4/2020

Canadian Federation of Agriculture

Develop a long-term infrastructure plan for agriculture and rural Canada, with predictable funding and accessibility for communities of all sizes and diverse projects.

2/6/2020

Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami

[Provide] $18 million over five years to advance implementation of the National Inuit Strategy on Research.

2/6/2020

Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami

[Invest] in regional fibre projects, beginning with regional feasibility studies.

2/6/2020

Northwest Territories Association of Communities

Make the doubling of the Gas Tax Fund permanent.

2/5/2020

Northwest Territories Association of Communities

All future infrastructure programs should be designed [like the Gas Tax Fund].

2/5/2020

Northwest Territories Association of Communities

Ensure the [Northwest Territories] and the North have adequate telecommunications and broadband.

2/5/2020

Northwest Territories Association of Communities

Ensure cellular coverage is put in place along all [Northwest Territories] Highways to ensure the safety of the driving public.

2/5/2020

Prospectors and Developers Association of Canada

Provide a dedicated funding stream to expedite the development of critical energy infrastructure such as small-scale nuclear reactors in northern and remote regions.

2/5/2020

Prospectors and Developers Association of Canada

[Address] the infrastructure deficit [in northern and remote regions] through strategic, large-scale investments in critical transportation and energy infrastructure.

2/5/2020

The Mining Association of Canada

Establish a $250 million fund for remote and northern industrial electrification.

2/6/2020

Appraisal Institute of Canada

Make an immediate investment to improve the quality of the terrain data that is the foundation of all flood mapping.

2/6/2020

Canadian Association of Fire Chiefs

That the federal government consider the formation of an entity similar to the U.S. based Federal Emergency Management Agency's US Fire Administration (i.e. a national fire advisor).

2/4/2020

Canadian Association of Fire Chiefs

That the federal government invest $2.5 million to provide all firefighters with mental health awareness training.

2/4/2020

Canadian Association of Fire Chiefs

That the federal government earmark $50 million per year to ensure that fire departments are equipped to respond to innovation.

2/4/2020

Canadian Association of Fire Chiefs

That the federal government earmark an additional $30 million for the re-introduction of a modified Joint Emergency Preparedness Program, while maintaining the stable ongoing funding for Heavy Urban Search and Rescue.

2/4/2020

Canadian Electricity Association

Expand the “Project Lighthouse” pilot to other jurisdictions to improve cyber security capabilities and continue investment to improve Canada’s electricity infrastructure cyber security posture.

2/5/2020

Insurance Bureau of Canada

That the federal government deliver the National Action Plan on Flooding.

2/3/2020

Insurance Bureau of Canada

[Ensure that] a public-private partnership [is] in place designed to ensure financial stability and protect consumers in the case of a significant [earthquake] event.

2/3/2020

Insurance Bureau of Canada

Dedicated funding to design and cost a high-risk insurance pool [specific to flooding] and an associated program of strategic retreat.

2/3/2020

Intact Financial Corporation

With provinces and territories ... complete all the flood maps in Canada, developing a national action plan to assist homeowners with potential relocation for those at the highest risk of repeat flooding, and investing in natural infrastructure solutions like grasslands and wetlands that act to reduce the economic impact of floods.

2/6/2020

Intact Financial Corporation

Develop a federal emergency earthquake backstop.

2/6/2020

National Police Federation

The Royal Canadian Mounted Police is in need of additional funding to increase its ability to recruit and train more police officers.

2/5/2020

Technation

[With respect to cyberecurity, establish] establish a Government-Industry Executive Advisory Table, invest in the development of cyber talent, fund research, development and commercialization of new cyber security, introduce a tax credit for cyber security technologies [and] a 15 percent non-refundable tax credit for small business to purchase cyber security insurance, [and create] professional standards for the use and development of contemporary technologies in all sectors.

2/6/2020

Alberta Chambers of Commerce

Modernize the tax system with a full review. ... A royal commission is the best approach.

2/6/2020

Allan Lanthier (as an individual)

Establish an independent and non-partisan committee to carry out a comprehensive review of the Canadian tax regime.

2/6/2020

Business Council of Canada

[Modernize] and [simplify] the tax system.

2/5/2020

Canadian Chamber of Commerce

Conduct a comprehensive review of the Canadian tax system.

2/4/2020

Canadians for Tax Fairness

Shift to an international corporate tax system with unitary taxation of corporations and apportionment of their profits according to a formula that reflects real economic activity just as we allocate corporate profit for tax purposes between provinces in Canada.

2/3/2020

Canadians for Tax Fairness

Increase investment in the Canada Revenue Agency.

2/3/2020

Chartered Professional Accountants of Canada

Launch a comprehensive review of Canada’s tax system, led by an independent expert panel.

2/4/2020

Confédération des syndicats nationaux

Take a tougher stance against tax cheaters and accounting firms that develop aggressive tax avoidance strategies.

2/5/2020

Confédération des syndicats nationaux

Make it no longer possible for companies to repatriate dividends from tax havens without paying taxes.

2/5/2020

Hotel Association of Canada

Develop and implement an information and enforcement program through the Canada Revenue Agency to encourage voluntary compliance for the short-term rental industry.

2/4/2020

MNP LLP

The Government needs to simplify tax compliance for entrepreneurs and small business.

2/6/2020

Morgan Construction and Environmental Inc.

Create a corporate and personal tax regime [to promote competitiveness].

2/6/2020

Peter Weissman (as an individual)

Convene a multidisciplinary comprehensive bipartisan panel to look at [a] comprehensive review of our tax system.

2/5/2020

Peter Weissman (as an individual)

Invest in training [Canada Revenue Agency] auditors rather than hiring more.

2/5/2020

Tax Templates Inc.

Undertake a detailed review of the tax system.

2/4/2020

TMX Group Limited

Review … the Canada Income Tax Act with a view to global competitiveness.

2/4/2020

Hotel Association of Canada

Make Destination Canada a more competitive tourism marketing organization [with] long-term sustainable funding by increasing base funding to $135 million annually.

2/4/2020

Tourism Industry Association of Canada

Make Destination Canada a more competitive tourism marketing organization [with] long-term sustainable funding by increasing base funding to $135 million annually.

2/5/2020

Tourism Industry Association of Canada

Streamline the visa application process and bring low-risk countries under the [Electronic Travel Authorization] program for temporary resident visas.

2/5/2020

Tourism Industry Association of Canada

Ensure that the collection of biometric requirements does not hamper tourism growth.

2/5/2020

Tourism Industry Association of Canada

Facilitate the freedom to move people across the border and through airports with expanded pre-clearance and adequate investments in national transportation infrastructure to meet service levels.

2/5/2020

Tourism Industry Association of Canada

Reduce taxes paid by international visitors to Canada through the removal of GST on tourism products sold abroad to international visitors; and reduce costs attributed to fees, levies and taxes on air travel to help make the cost of air travel more competitive.

2/5/2020

Tourism Industry Association of Canada

Enhance, streamline, and expand the Canadian Experiences Fund through Canada’s Regional Development Agencies to continue to support the diversification of Canadian tourism product.

2/5/2020

Alberta Chambers of Commerce

Take an active role in reducing barriers to internal trade.

2/6/2020

Aluminium Association of Canada

Support the need to modernize the support services of the [Canada Border Services Agency's] import watch mechanism that the government put in place on September 1 [2019].

2/4/2020

Aluminium Association of Canada

Develop with the governments of the United States and Mexico an approach to harmonize mechanisms for monitoring aluminum transits through [the Canada-U.S.-Mexico Agreement] territory.

2/4/2020

Aluminium Association of Canada

Support the implementation of metal traceability systems in Canada.

2/4/2020

ARC Financial Corp

We have to be very careful with strict compliance to international agreements that may well be incomplete and inadequate in areas that are of critical importance to Canada's interests and notably trade.

2/4/2020

Canadian Chamber of Commerce

Provide support services for cleantech exports through the Trade Commissioner Service.

2/4/2020

Canadian Chamber of Commerce

Support cleantech foreign direct investment through Invest in Canada.

2/4/2020

Canadian Steel Producers Association

[Reinstitute] the requirement for an Import Permit for each shipment before landing in Canada.

2/3/2020

Canadian Steel Producers Association

[Create] a new comprehensive approach to increase importer verification audit activities and an effective administrative monetary penalty system, for noncomplying importers and for those who evade payment of duties under the Special Import Measures Act.

2/3/2020

Canadian Steel Producers Association

[Recognize] the integrated nature of the Canadian and American steel markets, as well as the importance of a strong and free trading relationship with the US. Further imposition of duties, or any additional trading restrictions, would have negative consequences on Canadian steel producers.

2/3/2020

Climate Action Networks Canada

Canada needs to deal with the fact that we continue to fund fossil fuel development via Export Development Canada.

2/5/2020

Dairy Farmers of Canada

Provide full and fair compensation to dairy farmers to mitigate the impacts of recent trade agreements.

2/6/2020

Green Budget Coalition

Committing to ending Export Development Canada’s financing and support for fossil fuels by 2020 and ensuring their climate change policy aligns its investments with Canada’s climate commitments.

2/4/2020

Technation

Continue [to invest] in the Global Affairs Canada Trade [Commissioner] Service.

2/6/2020

The Mining Association of Canada

Establish an [Export Development Canada] vehicle to provide financing for renewable power solutions for resource projects outside of Canada to help off-set diesel reliance and lower global GHG emissions.

2/6/2020

The Mining Association of Canada

Continue efforts to diversify market access and ratify NAFTA 2.0.

2/6/2020