The Honourable Harjit S. Sajjan, Minister of International Development and Minister responsible for the Pacific Economic Development Agency of Canada (PacifiCan) will provide details on how Budget 2022 will help create good, middle class jobs.

Today, the Minister of Environment and Climate Change, the Honourable Steven Guilbeault, highlighted important new tax relief measures in Budget 2022 that will help small and medium-sized businesses throughout the province and the entire country to grow and re-invest in their own success.

Please be advised that the Honourable Patty Hajdu, Minister of Indigenous Services Canada, will participate in a media availability to highlight Budget 2022 investments in small businesses.

Reminder - Minister Ien highlights investments in economic growth and tax cuts for small and medium businesses in Budget 2022

Minister Ien highlights investments in economic growth and tax cuts for small and medium businesses in Budget 2022

The Honourable Mélanie Joly, Minister of Foreign Affairs, today met with Michael Tene, Deputy Secretary-General of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) for ASEAN Political-Security Community, and with the ASEAN Committee of Permanent Representatives (ASEAN CPR) to reaffirm the valuable cooperation and growing partnership between Canada and ASEAN.

Media technical briefing regarding upcoming severe weather in southern Manitoba and southeastern Saskatchewan

Through Budget 2022: A Plan to Grow Our Economy and Make Life More Affordable, the government of Canada makes targeted and responsible investments to create good jobs, grow our economy, and build a Canada where nobody gets left behind.

The Honourable Marco Mendicino, Minister of Public Safety will be speaking about how Budget 2022 investments and tax cuts for small businesses will create jobs and support local businesses in Thunder Bay and across Northwestern Ontario.

Since the depths of the pandemic recession, the government’s focus on jobs—on keeping Canadians employed and on keeping their employers afloat—has ensured Canada’s economy has made a rapid and strong recovery. Canada has seen the best jobs recovery in the G7, having recovered 112 per cent of the jobs lost, and with an unemployment rate that sits at just 5.5 per cent—close to the 5.4 per cent low in 2019 that was Canada’s best in five decades.

Government of Canada Budget 2022 invests in small businesses

Minister Joly meets with Indonesian Foreign Affairs Minister and with President of Indonesia

The Honourable Steven Guilbeault, Minister of Environment and Climate Change, will highlight funding under Budget 2022 to support measures that will help small- and medium-sized businesses throughout the country.

Today in Brampton, the Honourable Anita Anand, Minister of National Defence, on behalf of the Honourable Jonathan Wilkinson, Minister of Natural Resources, announced a $445,000 investment in the Regional Municipality of Peel to install 80 electric vehicle (EV) chargers across the region. Funded through Natural Resources Canada’s Zero-Emission Vehicle Infrastructure Program, all chargers will be available to Ontarians by the end of this year. The total cost of the Peel Climate Change Partnership project is more than $1.3 million.

On April 9, 2022, as a result of the vigilance of staff members, a package containing contraband and unauthorized items was seized on the property of Warkworth Institution, a medium security federal institution.

Government of Canada officials to hold a news conference on coronavirus disease (April 12, 2022).

Today, the Honourable Joyce Murray, Minister of Fisheries, Oceans and the Canadian Coast Guard, on behalf of the Honourable Dominic LeBlanc, Minister of Intergovernmental Affairs, Infrastructure and Communities, and the Honourable Nathan Cullen, British Columbia’s Minister of Municipal Affairs, announced more than $110.3 million in joint federal-provincial funding for 57 community, recreation, and green infrastructure projects across British Columbia.

The Minister of Transport, the Honourable Omar Alghabra, will provide details on how Budget 2022 will cut taxes for small businesses in Canada. Minister Alghabra will be joined by the Honourable Bardish Chagger, Member of Parliament for Waterloo, Valerie Bradford, Member of Parliament for Kitchener South–Hespeler, Tim Louis, Member of Parliament for Kitchener–Conestoga, and Bryan May, Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of National Defence and Member of Parliament for Cambridge.

Please be advised that the Honourable Patty Hajdu, Minister of Indigenous Services; Dr. Evan Adams, Deputy Chief Medical Officer of Public Health; and Patrick Boucher, Senior Assistant Deputy Minister of the First Nations and Inuit Health Branch, will hold a news conference to provide an update on COVID-19 in Indigenous communities.

The Government of Canada is investing over $56.8 million towards these projects through the Community Culture, and Recreation Infrastructure Stream, the Green Infrastructure Stream, and the Rural and Northern Infrastructure Stream of the Investing in Canada Infrastructure Program. The Government of British Columbia is contributing over $53.4 million. Recipients are contributing over $27.1 million to these projects.

Public Services and Procurement Canada (PSPC) wishes to advise motorists of lane reductions on the Des Joachims Bridge for maintenance work.

The Honourable Jean-Yves Duclos, Minister of Health, visits La Maison Simons’ Campus to highlight Budget 2022 investments for a clean economy.

Through Budget 2022: A Plan to Grow Our Economy and Make Life More Affordable, the Government of Canada makes targeted and responsible investments to create good jobs, grow our economy, and build a Canada where nobody gets left behind. Today, Minister of Families, Children and Social Development Karina Gould participated in a roundtable with stakeholders to discuss investments for making the switch to zero-emission vehicles more affordable and building a national network of electric vehicle charging stations.

Today, the Honourable Jonathan Wilkinson, Minister of Natural Resources, joined by the Honourable Sandy Silver, Premier of Yukon; the Honourable John Streicker, Minister responsible for the Yukon Development Corporation and the Yukon Energy Corporation; and Brendan Hanley, Member of Parliament for Yukon, announced a $32.2 million investment through the Low Carbon Economy Fund to Tlingit Homeland Energy Limited Partnership for the Atlin Hydro Expansion Project.

Public Services and Procurement Canada wishes to advise pedestrians that the pathway behind the Centre Block and the stairway on the west escarpment of Parliament Hill, which were closed for the winter season, will reopen on April 14, depending on weather conditions.