Budget 2025: What It Means for Kanata, Stittsville, Bells Corners, and Carp

Budget 2025 is about meeting the moment and building Canada Strong. It’s a plan rooted in confidence — confidence in our people, in our innovators, and in Canada’s ability to lead through change.

At a time when the world is shifting — with new trade barriers, global uncertainty, and the race to harness technologies like artificial intelligence — Canada is acting with purpose. This budget invests to protect our sovereignty, supercharges our productivity, and empowers Canadians to get ahead.

It’s about spending less to invest more — in housing Canadians can afford, in building the infrastructure of the next generation, in clean energy, and in creating the high-value jobs of tomorrow.

For our communities of Kanata, Carp, Bells Corners and Stittsville, this means accelerating innovation in sectors like semiconductors, photonics, and AI; supporting our skilled trades and small businesses; and ensuring that the opportunities of this new economy are built right here at home.

At the heart of this budget are the families and youth.

With Budget 2025, we’re cutting taxes for the middle class — saving a typical two-income family up to $840 a year. We’ve cancelled the consumer carbon price, lowering gas prices by about 18 cents a litre. We’re making the National School Food Program permanent, helping 400,000 children get a healthy meal at school and saving families up to $800 a year. And we are continuing to invest in childcare saving families here in Ontario over $10,000 a year per child.

We’re also launching Automatic Federal Benefits, so that up to 5.5 million low-income Canadians will get the supports they deserve without extra paperwork.

For our youth, this budget is a game-changer. We are creating 175,000 job placements to help young Canadians gain the skills and experience they need to succeed in the high-growth industries of tomorrow, like technology, clean energy, and digital innovation. These opportunities will ensure that the next generation of Canadians has the tools they need to shape the future.

What does this mean for Kanata, Carp, Bells Corners and Stittsville? It means more opportunities for young people and more money staying in family budgets — whether it’s fueling the car for hockey practice, paying the mortgage, or putting healthy meals on the table. This budget makes life more affordable, more predictable, and more fair for every Canadian family.

Budget 2025 is about building Canada’s future economy — one powered by innovation, research, and the incredible talent we have in Kanata, Carp, and Stittsville.

This budget invests to supercharge productivity and innovation — introducing a new Productivity Super-Deduction to help companies invest in new technologies, and strengthening the Scientific Research and Experimental Development (SR&ED) tax incentive that fuels R&D.

It also makes major commitments to artificial intelligence, semiconductors, and photonics — including support for the Canada Photonics Fabrication Centre, right here in Ottawa, ensuring that we have a sovereign semiconductor fabrication capability, world-class research and manufacturing stay in Canada.

These investments mean more high-paying jobs, stronger small businesses, and new opportunities for our talented engineers, scientists, and entrepreneurs. In Kanata North — Canada’s largest technology park — this budget builds on our strengths, helping local innovators compete globally while creating the careers of tomorrow, right here at home.

Strong communities are the foundation of a strong Canada — and Budget 2025 delivers with the new Build Communities Strong Fund. This landmark $51-billion investment over ten years will help municipalities build the infrastructure Canadians rely on every day.

For Kanata, Carp, Bells Corners and Stittsville, this fund could mean upgrades to local roads and transit connections, expanded recreation and community facilities, and stronger flood and stormwater protection for our growing community.

This is about giving local leaders the tools to shape their future — building healthy, connected, and resilient communities where families can thrive and where every investment helps make our community, and our country, Canada Strong.

Budget 2025 recognizes that a strong Canada starts with healthy Canadians. It strengthens our health care system, supports our seniors, and ensures that care is there when and where people need it.

We’re investing to reduce wait times, expand access to family doctors, and modernize health services through new digital tools and data systems. Budget 2025 also reinforces our commitment to dental care and pharmacare, protecting millions of Canadians from unexpected costs.

For seniors, we’re increasing support to help them stay active and independent in their communities — expanding programs that combat isolation, improve home and community care, and strengthen retirement security.

For Kanata, Carp, Bells Corners and Stittsville, that means better access to family health teams, support for local long-term care and seniors’ centres, and new investments in health innovation through our local tech sector — from digital health tools to aging-in-place technologies.

This budget ensures that every generation — from our youngest to our oldest — can count on a strong, compassionate, and modern health care system built for the future.

Affordable housing is one of the greatest challenges we face, and Budget 2025 takes bold action to address it.

Through Build Canada Homes, we’re launching the most ambitious homebuilding plan in a generation — investing $25 billion to double the pace of construction, cut red tape, and attract private investment. We’re also eliminating the GST on new homes under $1 million for first-time buyers and training the next generation of Canadian builders through expanded skilled trades programs.

In Kanata, Carp, Bells Corners, and Stittsville, these measures mean more attainable homes for young families, more work for local builders and tradespeople, and more vibrant, complete communities. Whether it’s a first home, a rental, or a place to age comfortably, this budget is about restoring the Canadian dream of housing that’s affordable, available, and built right here at home.

Budget 2025 delivers a generational investment in Canada’s security — and that means a generational opportunity for Ottawa’s defence and technology industries.

With a historic $30 billion over five years to rebuild, rearm, and reinvest in the Canadian Armed Forces, our budget ensures Canada meets NATO’s 2% target this year — five years ahead of schedule — while strengthening our domestic defence industrial base.

We’re creating a new Defence Investment Agency and launching a Defence Industrial Strategy that puts Canadian companies first. That means growing local supply chains, expanding production capacity, and supporting made-in-Canada innovation — from advanced sensors and cyber technologies to AI-enabled systems and secure communications.

For our communities of Kanata, Carp, Bells Corners and Stittsville, where defence innovation is part of our DNA, this will mean new contracts, new jobs, and new partnerships for companies developing the technologies that keep Canadians safe. From the engineers designing next-generation command systems to the skilled trades supporting our bases and equipment, Ottawa is ready to lead.

This is not just an investment in defence — it’s an investment in our people, our technology, and our place in the world.

Budget 2025 is about leading with confidence and discipline. It’s a plan that balances ambition with responsibility — because Canadians expect their government to be careful stewards of their hard-earned tax dollars.

This budget introduces a new approach: spending less to invest more. We are slowing the growth of government operations, cutting red tape, and focusing every dollar on priorities that grow the economy — like housing, innovation, and clean energy.

We are maintaining Canada’s lowest net debt-to-GDP ratio in the G7. We’re also introducing a capital budgeting framework to clearly separate day-to-day spending from long-term investments that build our country’s strength.

This disciplined approach protects vital programs Canadians rely on — from child care to pensions — while giving us the room to invest in the future. For families and businesses in Kanata, Carp, and Stittsville, it means stability, confidence, and a government focused on results.

Because building Canada Strong means being fiscally strong — today, and for generations to come.

Budget 2025 is more than a fiscal plan — it is a nation-building blueprint for a stronger, more confident Canada. It’s about protecting what we value, building what we need, and empowering every Canadian to shape our future.

In Kanata, Carp, and Stittsville, we see what that future looks like — innovators pushing the boundaries of technology, families working hard to build a life, and communities coming together to create opportunity. This budget invests in them — in affordable homes, good jobs, clean energy, and the next generation of Canadian ingenuity.

It challenges us to think big again — to build faster, to innovate boldly, and to believe in Canada’s potential. Together, we can turn today’s challenges into tomorrow’s opportunities and leave to our children a country that is stronger, more secure, and more united than ever before.

Because this is our time — Canada’s time — to build with purpose, to lead with confidence, and to keep building Canada Strong.