Budget 2025: Canada Strong
Today, Minister Champagne tabled Budget 2025: Canada Strong. This is our plan to transform our economy from one that is reliant on a single trade partner, to one that is stronger, more self-sufficient, and more resilient to global shocks.
This is an Investment Budget. We are making generational investments to:
Build the major infrastructure, homes, and industries that grow our economy and create lasting prosperity.
Protect our communities, our borders, and our way of life.
Empower Canadians with better careers, strong public services, and a more affordable life.
Our plan builds on Canada’s strengths – world-class industries, skilled and talented workers, diverse trade partnerships, and a strong domestic market where Canadians can be our own best customers. We are creating an economy by Canadians, for Canadians.
Canada faces a rapidly changing and increasingly uncertain world. The rules-based international order and the trading system that powered Canada’s prosperity for decades are being reshaped – hurting companies, displacing workers, and causing major disruption and upheaval for Canadians.
What are the impacts on Public Service?
Budget 2025 delivers on the Comprehensive Expenditure Review—reducing inefficiency and focusing on core priorities. The Comprehensive Expenditure Review will rein in government spending—saving Canada $13 billion annually by 2028-29, for a total with other savings and revenues of $60 billion over five years. The responsible choices we are making allow us to spend less to invest more in the workers, businesses, and nation-building infrastructure that will build Canada Strong.
Savings will be achieved by restructuring operations and consolidating internal services and rightsizing programs to realise efficiencies. It will also involve workforce adjustment and attrition to return the size of the public service to a more sustainable level.
The government understands that transitions can be difficult and is committed to minimising hardship for federal employees, while also protecting diversity in the public service workforce and ensuring a strong, younger generation of public servants.
We see and appreciate the dedication of those who serve Canadians every day, and we don’t take that commitment for granted. Our government is committed to implementing these budget decisions thoughtfully, transparently, and with care for the people affected.
Here in the National Capital Region, the federal government will continue to be a major employer—but also a catalyst for new private-sector growth. With major investments in national defence and procurement, Ottawa is a hub for defence innovation, security, technology, and advanced manufacturing. These investments will spur new opportunities in the public service and private sector alike. As the government evolves, Ottawa’s skilled and experienced workforce is well-positioned to seize these opportunities.
Ottawa has always been the heart of Canada’s public service—and as our economy grows and our national priorities evolve, our city will continue to be a centre of excellence, innovation, and opportunity.
This is a transformational time for the public service to revisit how we work, how we can improve services to Canadians, and how we can build for the future. A leaner public service is a more empowered and productive public service.
In the face of global uncertainty, Canadians are going to build the future we want for ourselves. We are making generational investments to build, protect, and empower Canada – to build Canada Strong.
