Last Week Today Episode 200 Show Notes for Monday, June 2nd, 2025
Concerns over the Federal Budget, Home Ownership, Housing & Other Problems, Manitoba Wildfires & Agenda 2030, Sir John A "Unboxed," Drone Attack, New CDN Immigrants & Vaxx Side Effects.
Concerns over the Federal Budget
While Canada’s first attempt at a 2025 Federal Budget was tabled by then finance minister, Chrystia Freeland in April 2025, it never came to a vote in Parliament and was eventually superseded, first by the 2025 Federal Election and then by the incoming Mark Carney Liberal government, which postponed any official government budget until sometime this fall.
While the original budget proposal was discussed in forums like the April 19th, 2025 Ernst & Young post, “Canada tables Federal Budget 2024-2025.” it generally wasn’t well received and likely wouldn’t have passed Parliament.
As outlined in the December 16th, 2024 Financial Post story, “Canada’s finance minister Chrystia Freeland resigns in blow to Justin Trudeau,” that budget led to the very public resignation of Freeland, and set the stage for the collapse of the Trudeau government and the April 28th, 2025 Federal election, which brought the curr…
