Budget 2009
Federal spending
Where the money's coming from
Last Updated: Tuesday, January 27, 2009 | 5:22 PM ET
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IN DEPTH: Federal budget 2009
- YOUR VIEW: What in this budget most affects you?
- CITIZEN BYTE: Daycare? A single parent reacts to the budget
- YOUR VOTE: How does this budget help you?
- CITIZEN BYTE: A young man shares story of economic success in his town
- MAP: Reaction to the 2009 Budget
- VIDEO: Margo McDiarmid reports: Ignatieff puts Tories 'on probation' with budget demand
- VIDEO: The National's economic panel shares its thoughts on the budget (Jan. 27)
- VIDEO: Marivel Taruc reports: Mixed feelings on the budget from the business community
Documents
- Full federal budget
- Complete budget documents at Ministry of Finance website
- Economic action plan
- Overview of economic stimulus
- Home renovation tax credit
- Eligibility and time frame
- Taxes
- Personal income tax, homeowners taxes
Analysis
- Bad-times budget delivers billions in tax cuts, spending
- How the spending breaks down
- Where the money is coming from
- Where the money is going
- VIDEO: Peter Mansbridge interviews Jim Flaherty after the budget speech
- INFRASTRUCTURE MAP: What the provinces were looking for, and what the federal budget delivered
- INTERACTIVE: Budget by the numbers
- Few surprises as government turns on the spending taps
- Flaherty vows tax cuts, incentives for homeowners
- VIDEO: What's in the budget for homeowners
- Conservatives make plans for national securities regulator
- $12B for infrastructure forms key pillar of stimulus package
- VIDEO: Details of the infrastructure spending package
- Forestry association welcomes budget; union angered
- Unemployed workers get boost in budget
- VIDEO: Budget provisions for unemployment
- All maxed out? Budget measures would improve credit access
- Environment gets lift in budget pledges
- Funding for arts and sciences still on the bill
- Budget allocates $438M to cultural spending
- Houses, Arctic research facility among budget goodies for North
- Early reviews mixed from Ignatieff; more expected Wednesday
- Budget sparks mixed reaction from mayors
- Federal budget calls for partnership from provinces: B.C. premier
- Alberta cities, province optimistic about federal budget, but need more details
- Calgary mayor encouraged by stimulus budget
- Saskatchewan seeks more details about federal budget
- Quebec argues Ottawa shorted province $1B in federal budget
- Defeat PM over 'vindictive, nasty' budget, N.L. premier tells Liberals
- Matching infrastructure funds a struggle for P.E.I.: Treasurer
- COLUMN: Keith Boag - Will a little red ink buy Harper the time he needs?
- VIDEO: Neil Macdonald on the track record of government stimulus spending (Jan. 26)
- PROFILES: The finance minister's advisory council
- MYTH/FACT: PM Harper's 2008 economic comments
- ARCHIVES: Looking back at notable budgets of the past
- IN DEPTH: The Bottom Line - things you need to know to weather the turbulent economy
Features
- The demise of the secret budget
- Debate heats up about Ottawa's stimulus strategy
- Evaluating Ottawa's tax-strategy options
- Deficit spending - the return of red ink
Sector by sector
- Bailout ready to go, but auto sector takes its cues from Detroit
- Waiting for a 'jobs' budget
- Health care: How to blow a bundle and be better for it
- Military spending: Funding the Forces
- Ailing forestry industry asks for help in federal budget, not a bailout
- Is Canada the answer to U.S. energy worries?
- AUDIO: Alison Myers reports: The oil industry's wish list for the budget (Runs 1:36)
- Carbon capture: How easy is it to nab greenhouse gases at the smokestack?
- YOUR MONEY: How the economy is affecting you
The federal government originally expected to bring in a little more than $244.5 billion in revenue for 2008-09. But economic conditions have forced a major recrunching of the numbers.
Now the government expects to collect $236.4 billion in the current fiscal year, which ends in March. That number is projected to fall even more, to $224.9 billion in 2009-10.
This expected revenue dip, combined with rising expenses, is expected to translate into a $1.1-billion deficit this fiscal year and $33.7 billion for 2009-10.
Here's a breakdown of the government's projected revenues. All figures are in billions of dollars.
(Source: Department of Finance)
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