Prime Minister Mark Carney’s government tabled Budget 2026 on Thursday with a focus on drawing investment and affordability measures for Canadians.
Here’s a brief look at some key numbers in the Liberal government’s 2026 budget.
— $142.1 billion: The total amount of new spending and tax breaks included in Budget 2026.
—$62.3 billion: The projected deficit for 2026-27.
— $3 billion: How much lower Ottawa’s projection for the 2026-27 deficit is compared with the April spring economic update.
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— 380,000: The target for the number of permanent resident admissions per year in 2027, 2028 and 2029.
— 370,000: The target for the number of new temporary resident admissions per year in 2027, 2028 and 2029.
— 200,000: The target for the number of temporary residents already in Canada who could become permanent residents by the end of 2027.
— $50 billion: The investment in growing Canada’s electricity grid.
— 55,000: The number of additional electric vehicle chargers Ottawa hopes to build by 2032.
— $1.2 billion: The amount the federal government says it will spend to extend funding agreements with the provinces and territories for mental health and addictions services and home and community care.
— $55.3 million: The proposed funding increase to Transport Canada over two years to advance digital trade processes and help businesses adopt new tools to be more competitive.
— $300 million: The increase in CBC/ Radio-Canada funding.
— $600 million: The amount of immediate support for Canadian content production.
— 110: The number of times the word “sovereign” or “sovereignty” is mentioned in the budget document.
More drug dealers coming in to replace the murdered ones in Surrey!
Wow. That’s an absolute list of garbage i cannot support at all. Not a single policy plank that looks reasonable to me. Not a single dollar of meaningful economic activity either. What an absolute piece of progressive trash!
Nothing to help seniors. all this money he gives away to other countries.
Deficits to eternity!
And no path to balanced budget.
Never mind our kids we will be the ones who have to pay for all this!
$142 Billion in new spending and $62 Billion in new deficit spending being bulldozed into our inflation inducing $1.4 Trillion national debt black hole???
Who’s economically advising this guy, Justin Trudeau?
These are the skewed numbers btw, the absolute best possible numbers the liberal government could put out. You would have to be born yesterday to think that these numbers are even close to the reality. And that says a lot as these fudged numbers are already horrifying…
useless bloody liberals, more flip flops too pay for
Reply to RD McDougall. So what would your budget look like? You can’t complain unless you can suggest a better solution.
That wasn’t a budget
It was a loan application
Budgets dont add expenses when you cant afford to pay for the current ones
WHAT A JOKE, THIS IS NO BUDGET. IT IS NOTHING OTHER THAN MANY MORE EAST INDIANS FOR US TO SUPPORT, TIME THIS JACKASS CARNEY GETS REMOVED FROM OFFICE