Canada's Federal Budget - what choices are being made?

From The David Suzuki Foundation

Read the Recommendations for Budget 2014 from the Green Budget Coalition.

The David Suzuki Foundation's blog about the Canada Federal Budget due 11 February 2014 raises questions about the ongoing choices being made on behalf of Canadians. Here is the Foundation's compiled list:

• 1.5 billion in cuts to the environment by 2016.
• 5 oil spill response offices closed across Canada.
• 8.4% cut to rail transportation safety.
• 99% of rivers and lakes now exempt from federal regulations.
• $56 million in cuts to Canada's food inspection system.
• 35 government libraries closed.
• More than 5,000 job losses at the Canadian Food Inspection Agency, Health Canada, Fisheries and Oceans and Agriculture Canada over the next three years.
• Over $298 million in government advertising since 2009-2010.
• All while federal fossil fuel subsidies add up to more than $1.38 billion.

Are we aware of these trends? What do we think and feel? What can/should we do?

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