The Canadian CED Network’s Policy Council submitted a response to the federal government’s invitation for pre-budget submissions for the 2021 Federal Budget. This year, the House of Commons Standing Committee on Finance called for submissions that addressed restarting the Canadian economy as it recovers from the COVID-19 pandemic.
Read the full pre-budget submission
If you also submitted a brief we’d love to include it below…
Please send your pre-budget submission to Ben Losman at b.losman at ccednet-rcdec.ca.
Our Recommendations for the 2021 Federal Budget
| 1. Accelerate Social Innovation and Social Finance | |
| a. | Produce a Social Innovation and Social Finance Strategy implementing all 12 recommendations of the Co-Creation steering group. |
| b. | Ensure equity seeking groups play a leading role in the implementation and subsequent evolution of the SISF strategy to build on existing local capacity and strengthen the expertise of the community economic development, non-profit, and co-operative sectors. |
| 2. Support Resilient Local Enterprises | |
| a. | Promote local and social procurement policies. |
| b. | Enable employee and community-based ownership succession and buyouts. |
| c. | Establish a national program to grow community investment funds in each province. |
| 3. Build Economies for All | |
| a. | Advance the decent work agenda to support good quality jobs and workers’ rights and well- being. |
| b. | Improve the efficacy of Labour Market and Workforce Development dollars to reach vulnerable groups seeking workplace skills and training, and ensure that an increased percentage of LMTA funding is directed at vulnerable groups. |
| c. | Accelerate the timeline of the Universal Broadband Fund, and use it to encourage community-owned broadband. |
