Budget bill incoming, Freeland offers preview [Video]

Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland will be tabling yet another omnibus bill to pass a sweeping range of measures promised in her April 16 federal budget, though left out of the legislation will be the government’s proposed capital gains tax change.

On Tuesday, the senior Liberal cabinet minister offered an early preview of what the budget bill will contain, when she tabled notice of what’s known as a “ways and means motion” in the House of Commons.

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This motion, spanning 663 pages, outlines all of the tax and legislative measures that the government plans to include in the bill – titled the “Budget Implementation Act, 2024, No. 1″— coming to the Commons soon, if MPs allow.

Speaking about the incoming bill and the next phase of the government’s economic plan at a press conference on Parliament Hill, Freeland framed the legislative package as “about ensuring fairness for …