Ontario's legal aid agency will consult the public on ways they can continue serving the province's low-income population after Ontario Premier Doug Ford delivered the largest cut to the organization in two decades.

The federal government is proposing a change that would require Canada's anti-money laundering agency to be more transparent about banks that break the rules.

Federal Finance Minister Bill Morneau kicked off his post-budget sales effort on Wednesday, March 19, 2019, defending his Liberal government's strategy of investing in consumer confidence and deflecting suggestions that it could lead to higher home prices in overheated urban markets.

Canadians could soon be putting $250 a year in federal tax credits toward better skills, while getting federal help to pay the bills.

The federal Liberal government is promising a new agency to negotiate prescription drug prices for Canadians and try to drive down costs — a move billed as an "important step" on the path to an eventual national pharmacare plan.

The Trudeau government is promising billions of dollars to compensate dairy, egg and poultry farmers hurt by Canada's recent free-trade agreements — industries concentrated in vote-rich Quebec and Ontario.

Conservative parliamentarians banged tables and stomped their feet while Finance Minister Bill Morneau sought to deliver a speech about the 2019 budget before walking out on Tuesday, with Andrew Scheer saying the budget had no legitimacy while the government was intent on shutting down an inquiry into the SNC-Lavalin affair.

The Trudeau government is proposing to help subsidize the cost of buying an electric car by up to $5,000, but has declined to establish a more stringent sales mandate, opting instead for voluntary targets.

Canada’s federal government plans to spend $4.5 billion over five years to improve the living conditions of Indigenous communities and advance self-determination and self-governance, as Justin Trudeau’s Liberal government seeks to renew its claim as an honest broker and trusted partner in reconciliation efforts.

The Trudeau government needs to serve up more for fossil fuel industry workers who face an uncertain future if it wants to avoid a “major blowback,” says the co-chair of a federal advisory panel on the issue.

The budget, the Liberal government’s last before an October election in which such efforts are expected to feature, would allocate $19.4 million over four years to launch and run a Digital Democracy Project to “support research and policy development on online disinformation in the Canadian context.”

The federal government plans to spend more than a billion dollars over five years to strengthen Canada’s border and speed up the processing of asylum claims and removal of failed applicants, its 2019 budget shows, as immigration heats up as an election issue.

Finance Minister Bill Morneau’s last federal budget before the 2019 election shows that the Trudeau government’s deficit is about $3 billion lower than anticipated for the 2018-2019 fiscal year, but there are no signs of balancing Canada’s books in the coming years.

The Trudeau government is proposing to eliminate the federal agency in charge of traveller, baggage and worker security screening at airports. Buried in Finance Minister Bill Morneau's 460-page budget that was delivered Tuesday is a clause noting that the government is "transitioning the Canadian Air Transport Security Authority (CATSA) to an independent, not-for-profit entity."