economic action plan 2014: new brunswick caucus backgrounder

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ECONOMIC ACTION PLAN 2014: NEW
BRUNSWICK CAUCUS
BACKGROUNDER
INITIATIVES THAT WILL BENEFIT NEW
BRUNSWICK
Connecting Canadians with Available Jobs
Launching the Canada Job Grant: Helping Canadians get the skills they need to get indemand jobs.
Helping Canadians with Disabilities: Providing $222 million to create new Labour Market
Agreements for Persons with Disabilities to better help Canadians with disabilities get
the skills they need to fill available jobs.
Supporting Persons with Disabilities: Providing $15 million to the Ready, Willing & Able
Initiative and $11.4 million to Community Works to help persons with intellectual
disabilities and Autism Spectrum Disorders participate in the workforce.
Creating the Canada Apprentice Loan: Helping apprentices registered in Red Seal
trades complete their training by providing access to over $100 million in interest-free
loans each year.
Supporting Canada’s Entrepreneurs: Providing an additional $40 million to the Canada
Accelerator and Incubator Program to help entrepreneurs across the country create new
companies and realize the potential of their ideas.
Supporting Apprenticeship Training: Introducing pilot projects to expand the use of
innovative approaches to training apprentices.
Supporting Youth Employment: Investing $40 million for up to 3,000 internships in high
demand fields and $15 million for up to 1,000 internships in small and medium-sized
businesses.
Helping Students with the Cost of Education: Eliminating the value of student-owned
vehicles from loan assessments to better reflect the needs of students, especially in
rural and suburban communities, who commute or work while studying.
Reforming First Nations K-12 Education: Supporting the implementation of a First
Nations Control of First Nations Education Act that will provide young First Nations
students with an accountable and higher level of education on reserve.
Encouraging Women to Become Entrepreneurs: Providing $150,000 to increase
mentorship among women entrepreneurs.
Supporting Students and Interns: Renewing the Computers for Schools Program with a
$36 million investment to continue to provide students and interns across the country
with computers, helping them get the skills they need to succeed in today’s modern
economy.
Helping Older Workers Get Back to Work: Investing $75 million to renew and expand
the Targeted Initiative for Older Workers so that older Canadians can continue to
contribute to Canada’s economy.
Strengthening Canada’s Labour Market: Launching an enhanced Job Matching Service
and Modernized Job bank to ensure Canadians are given the first chance at available
jobs.
Fostering Job Creation, Innovation and Trade
Reducing the Regulatory Burden: Removing regulatory red tape through the Red Tape
Reduction Action Plan so that small and medium sized businesses can save time and
money.
Reducing the Tax Compliance Burden: Eliminating over 800,000 payroll deduction
remittances to Canada Revenue Agency made every year by over 50,000 small
businesses.
Strengthening Canada’s Intellectual Property Regime: Modernizing Canada’s
intellectual property framework to reduce the red tape burden for Canada’s innovative
businesses.
Promoting Canadian-Made Products: Enhancing consumer awareness of Canadianmade products, home and abroad, by developing a new Made-in-Canada consumer
awareness campaign.
Reducing Barriers to Trade Within Canada: Benefiting consumers across Canada by
strengthening Canada’s economic union.
Securing International Leadership in Science and Innovation: Creating the ‘Canada First
Research Excellence Fund’ by investing $1.5 billion to position post-secondary
institutions across Canada to compete internationally.
Supporting Leading Edge Research: Providing $46 million to the granting councils in
support of advanced research and scientific discoveries at Canada’s leading universities
and colleges.
Enhancing Research Training: Providing $8 million to train more graduates and
postdoctoral fellows in becoming the next generation of innovators and researchers.
Fostering Social Innovation: Providing $10 million to support research at colleges and
polytechnics focusing on education, integration of vulnerable Canadians and community
development.
Responsible Resource Development, Natural Heritage and Infrastructure and
Transportation
Supporting First Nation Fishing Enterprises: Providing over $66 million to renew the
Atlantic and Pacific Integrated Commercial Fisheries Initiatives, which helps integrate
First Nations fishing enterprises into Canada’s commercial fisheries, which helps to
create jobs for First Nations.
Improving Regional and Local Ports: Providing $33 million to support the divestiture of
regional ports to local enterprise and to ensure the continued operation and
maintenance of federally-owned ports.
Protecting Atlantic Canada’s Forestry Sector: Providing $18 million to prevent the
spread of spruce budworm, protecting against the loss of valuable forest resources.
Supporting Junior Mineral Exploration: Extending the 15 per-cent Mineral Exploration
Tax Credit for an additional year, helping companies expand their operations and
creating more jobs for Canadians.
Supporting Canada’s Forestry Sector: Investing over $90 million to advance cutting
edge technologies to enhance the competitiveness of Canada’s forestry companies
through the Investments in Forest Industry Transformation program.
Supporting Atlantic Ferries: Investing $58 million for the continued operation of Atlantic
ferries, including service between Digby, Nova Scotia and Saint John, New Brunswick.
Supporting Offshore Oil and Gas Development: Eliminating tariffs on mobile offshore
drilling units used in offshore oil and gas exploration and development. This tariff
elimination will lower business costs by $13 million annually and increase the potential
for valuable resource discoveries in Canada’s Atlantic and Arctic offshore areas.
Exploring Opportunities to Restore Access to Partridge Island: Providing up to $200,000
for an engineering study to examine the feasibility of repairing the breakwater
connecting Partridge Island to the mainland.
Improving Small Craft Harbours: Investing an additional $40 million to support the
creation of jobs in coastal communities and ensuring that harbour facilities meet the
needs of commercial fishermen.
Supporting Farmers: Expanding the tax deferral for livestock to include bees and all
horses over 12 months that are kept for breeding when sold due to drought or excess
moisture.
Removing Red Tape for the Beer Industry: Modernizing the compositional standards for
beer under the Food and Drug Regulations to reflect innovation in the industry.
Sustaining Canada’s National Parks: Providing over $390 million to Parks Canada to
make improvements to highways, bridges, and dams located in our national and historic
canals across Canada.
Conserving Recreational Fisheries: Investing an additional $15 million to extend the
Recreational Fisheries Conservation Partnerships Program to additional conservation
projects in New Brunswick and across the country.
Investing in Canada’s Extensive Trail Systems: Improving and expanding snowmobile
and recreational trails in New Brunswick and across the country by providing $10 million
to the National Trails Coalition.
Promoting Conservation and Environmental Education: Providing $3 million to support
Earth Rangers Foundation educate more children and families about biodiversity and
animals in their habitats.
Supporting Families and Communities
Increasing Competition in the Telecommunications Market: Capping wholesale
domestic wireless roaming rates, creating more competition in the wireless market and
benefiting consumers.
Improving Access to Broadband in Rural and Northern Communities: Providing $305
million to extend and enhance access to high-speed broadband networks for up to an
additional 280,000 Canadian households.
Strengthening Canada’s Food Safety System: Investing over $150 million to enhance
the Canadian Food Inspection Agency’s food safety programs to ensure that Canada’s
food supply is safe.
Cracking Down on Payday Lenders: Working with the provinces to ensure that all
payday lenders are appropriately regulated and to raise awareness about the costs and
alternatives to high interest rate lending products.
Confronting Prescription Drug Abuse in Canada: Investing over $44 million to combat
prescription drug abuse in Canada.
Expanding health-related tax relief: Removing the GST / HST on more health care
products and services to better reflect the health care needs of Canadians.
Increasing the Adoption Tax Credit: Increasing the Adoption Expense Tax Credit to
$15,000 to better recognize the costs associated with adopting a child.
Supporting Seniors: Providing an additional $5 million to the New Horizons for Seniors
Program so that more seniors can actively participate in their communities.
Combating Contraband Tobacco: Investing over $91 million to enhance the RCMP’s
ability to crack-down on the dangerous and illegal trade of contraband tobacco.
Supporting our Athletes: Providing record funding to our Olympic, Paralympic and
Special Olympic athletes when they “go for the gold” and make Canada proud on the
world stage.
Helping Amateur Athletes Save for Retirement: Allowing income contributed to an
amateur athlete trust to be invested in an RRSP.
Honouring our Veterans: Providing over $100 million to expand the Funeral and Burial
Program to ensure that veterans of modest means have access to a dignified funeral
and burial.
Increasing Access to Veterans Services: Providing $2 million to enable veterans and
their families access to engage the Department of Veterans Affairs 24 hours a day, 7
days a week.
Reducing Violence: Investing $25 million to continue efforts to reduce violence against
aboriginal women and girls.
New Tax Relief for Search and Rescue Volunteers: Introducing the Search and Rescue
Volunteers Tax Credit in recognition of the important role played by those who put
themselves at risk for the security and safety of our communities.
Protecting our Communities: Providing up to $200 million to establish a National
Disaster Mitigation Program to better protect Canadians and their communities from
natural disasters.
Protecting Against Floods: Working with the insurance industry and provinces to
develop a national approach to residential flood insurance in Canada.
Earthquake Monitoring: Providing over $11 million to upgrade earthquake monitoring
systems to provide timely public alerts in high-risk and urban areas.
Improving the Health and Safety of First Nations Communities: Investing $320 million to
implement the First Nations Water and Waster Action Plan to support the construction
and maintenance of water and wastewater systems.
Record Transfer Support for Social and Health Services in New Brunswick
New Brunswick will receive significant support through major federal transfers in
2014-15
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All major federal transfers to provinces and territories will grow from current record
levels, totalling $65 billion in 2014-15, an increase of 56% since 2005-06 under the
former Liberal government
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For New Brunswick, Total Major Transfers will total $2.6 billion in 2014-15, including:
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nearly $1.7 billion through Equalization, an increase of $318 million, or almost
24% since 2005-06 under the former Liberal government
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$682 million through the Canada Health Transfer, an increase of $184 million, or
almost 37% since 2005-06 under the former Liberal government
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$267 million through the Canada Social Transfer, an increase of $56 million, or
26% since 2005-06 under the former Liberal government
PLAN D'ACTION ÉCONOMIQUE 2014:
LIVRET D’INFORMATION POUR LE
NOUVEAU-BRUNSWICK
INITIATIVES DONT LE NOUVEAUBRUNSWICK POURRA BÉNÉFICIER
Jumeler les Canadiens et les emplois disponibles
Lancer la Subvention canadienne pour l’emploi : Aider les Canadiens à acquérir les
compétences dont ils ont besoin pour combler les postes en demande.
Aider les Canadiens handicapés : Allouer 222 millions de dollars par année pour créer
de nouvelles ententes sur le marché du travail visant les personnes handicapées afin
de mieux aider ces dernières à acquérir les compétences dont elles ont besoin pour
combler les postes vacants.
Soutenir les personnes handicapées : Allouer 15 millions de dollars à l’Initiative Prêts,
Désireux et Capables (Ready, Willing & Able) et 11,4 millions de dollars au programme
CommunityWorks afin d’aider les personnes souffrant d’une déficience intellectuelle et
de troubles du spectre de l’autisme à participer à la population active.
Créer le Prêt canadien aux apprentis : Aider les apprentis inscrits à un métier Sceau
rouge à terminer leur formation en offrant plus de 100 millions de dollars en prêts sans
intérêts, chaque année.
Soutenir les entrepreneurs canadiens : Allouer 40 millions de dollars additionnels au
Programme canadien des accélérateurs et des incubateurs afin d’aider les
entrepreneurs, partout au pays, à démarrer des entreprises et à mettre leurs idées en
pratique.
Soutenir la formation en apprentissage : Réaliser des projets pilotes afin d’intensifier
l’utilisation d’approches novatrices pour former les apprentis.
Soutenir l’emploi chez les jeunes : Allouer 40 millions de dollars pour soutenir jusqu’à
3 000 stages dans des domaines en demande et 15 millions de dollars pour soutenir
jusqu’à 1 000 stages dans des petites et moyennes entreprises.
Aider les étudiants à supporter les coûts de l’éducation : Ne plus tenir compte de la
valeur des véhicules utilisés par les étudiants pour se rendre aux études ou au travail
dans le cadre du processus d’évaluation de l’admissibilité aux prêts, principalement
dans les communautés rurales et suburbaines.
Réformer l’éducation des Premières Nations de la maternelle à la 12e année : Soutenir
la mise en application de la Loi donnant aux Premières Nations le contrôle de
l’éducation des Premières Nations afin d’offrir aux étudiants autochtones un système
d’éducation responsable et amélioré dans les réserves.
Encourager plus de femmes à devenir entrepreneures : Allouer 150 000 $ pour
améliorer le mentorat chez les femmes entrepreneures.
Soutenir les étudiants et les stagiaires : Renouveler le programme Ordinateurs pour les
écoles par un investissement de 36 millions de dollars afin de pouvoir continuer à
donner aux étudiants et aux stagiaires, partout au pays, accès à des ordinateurs, les
aidant à acquérir les compétences dont ils ont besoin pour réussir dans l’économie
moderne.
Aider les travailleurs âgés à retourner au travail : Investir 75 millions de dollars afin de
renouveler et d’élargir l’Initiative ciblée pour les travailleurs âgés, pour que les
Canadiens âgés puissent continuer à contribuer à l’économie canadienne.
Renforcer le marché du travail au Canada : Créer un service de jumelage des emplois
amélioré et moderniser le Guichet emplois national afin d’assurer que les Canadiens
sont les premiers à pouvoir profiter des emplois offerts.
Soutenir la création d'emplois, l’innovation et le commerce
Réduire le fardeau de la réglementation : Supprimer des formalités administratives dans
le cadre du Plan d’action pour la réduction du fardeau administratif afin d’aider les
petites et moyennes entreprises à économiser temps et argent.
Réduire le fardeau fiscal : Éliminer plus de 800 000 relevés de revenu salarial soumis
chaque année à l’Agence du revenu du Canada par plus de 50 000 petites entreprises.
Renforcer le régime de propriété intellectuelle du Canada : Moderniser le cadre
régissant la propriété intellectuelle en réduisant le fardeau administratif des entreprises
innovatrices.
Promouvoir les produits fabriqués au Canada : Mieux sensibiliser les consommateurs
aux produits fabriqués au Canada, ici au pays et à l’étranger, par une nouvelle
campagne de sensibilisation des consommateurs « Fabriqué au Canada ».
Réduire les obstacles au commerce au Canada : Soutenir les consommateurs, partout
au pays, en renforçant l’union économique.
Faire preuve d’un leadership international dans les domaines de la science et de
l’innovation : Créer le Fonds d’excellence en recherche « Apogée Canada » par un
investissement de 1,5 milliard de dollars visant à permettre aux institutions
postsecondaires du Canada d’être concurrentielles sur le plan mondial.
Soutenir la recherche de pointe : Allouer 46 millions de dollars aux organismes
subventionnaires afin de soutenir la recherche avancée et la découverte scientifique
dans les principaux collèges et universités du Canada.
Améliorer la formation en recherche : Allouer 8 millions de dollars afin de former plus de
diplômés d’études supérieures à devenir la prochaine génération d’innovateurs et de
chercheurs.
Encourager l’innovation sociale : Allouer 10 millions de dollars pour soutenir la
recherche dans les collèges et les écoles polytechniques en mettant l’accent sur
l’éducation, l’intégration des Canadiens vulnérables et le développement
communautaire.
Développement responsable des ressources, patrimoine naturel, infrastructure et
transport
Soutenir le secteur forestier du Canada : Investissement de plus de 90 millions de
dollars dans des technologies de pointe afin d’augmenter la compétitivité des secteurs
canadiens des produits du bois et des pâtes et papiers, par l'intermédiaire du
programme Investissements dans la transformation de l’industrie forestière.
Améliorer les ports pour petits bateaux : Investissement additionnel de 40 millions de
dollars pour soutenir la création d'emplois dans les communautés côtières et assurer
que les installations portuaires répondent aux besoins des pêcheurs commerciaux.
Appuyer la mise en valeur des hydrocarbures extracôtiers : Élimination des tarifs de
douane de 20% sur les unités mobiles de forage en mer utilisées pour l’exploration et
de développement pétroliers et gaziers au large. L’élimination de ces tarifs réduira les
coûts pour les entreprises de 13 millions de dollars par année et augmentera le
potentiel de découverte de ressources précieuses dans les zones extracôtières au
Canada atlantique et dans l’Arctique.
Soutenir les traversiers de Marine Atlantique : Investissement de 58 millions de dollars
pour l’opération continue des traversiers de l’Atlantique, ce qui comprend le service
entre Saint John, Nouveau-Brunswick–Digby, Nouvelle-Écosse
Protéger l’industrie forestière du Canada atlantique : Allocation de 18 millions de dollars
pour prévenir la dissémination de la tordeuse de bourgeons de l’épinette, protégeant de
précieuses ressources forestières.
Examiner les possibilités de rétablir l’accès à l’île Partridge : Allocation de 200 000 $
pour une étude technique visant à examiner la faisabilité de réparer la digue reliant l’île
Partridge au continent.
Améliorer les ports locaux et régionaux : Allouer 33 millions de dollars pour soutenir la
cession des ports régionaux aux entreprises locales et assurer l’exploitation et
l’entretien continus des ports appartenant au gouvernement fédéral.
Soutenir les petites entreprises d’exploration minière : Prolonger le Crédit d'impôt pour
exploration minière de 15 pour cent pendant une année additionnelle, aidant les
entreprises à élargir leurs opérations et à créer plus d’emplois pour les Canadiens.
Soutenir les entreprises de pêche des Premières Nations : Allouer plus de 66 millions
de dollars aux Initiatives des pêches commerciales intégrées de l’Atlantique et du
Pacifique, qui aident à intégrer les entreprises de pêche commerciale des Premières
Nations aux pêches commerciales nationales, créant ainsi des emplois pour les
Premières Nations.
Soutenir les agriculteurs : Élargir le report de l’impôt pour les éleveurs afin d’inclure les
abeilles et tous les chevaux de plus de 12 mois gardés pour l’élevage, mais devant être
vendus en raison d’une sécheresse ou d’une humidité excessive.
Éliminer des formalités administratives pour l’industrie de la bière : Moderniser les
normes de composition de la bière en vertu du Règlement sur les aliments et drogues
afin de tenir compte de l’innovation dans l’industrie.
Soutenir les parcs nationaux : Allouer plus de 390 millions de dollars à Parcs Canada
afin d’apporter des améliorations aux autoroutes, aux ponts et aux barrages dans les
parcs nationaux et les canaux historiques, partout au Canada.
Préserver les pêches récréatives : Investir 15 millions de dollars additionnels dans le
Programme de partenariats relatifs à la conservation des pêches récréatives afin de
soutenir des projets de conservation au Nouveau-Brunswick et partout au pays.
Investir dans le réseau de sentiers du Canada : Améliorer et prolonger les sentiers
récréatifs et de motoneige au Nouveau-Brunswick et partout au pays en allouant
10 millions de dollars à la Coalition nationale sur les sentiers.
Promouvoir l’éducation sur la conservation et l’environnement : Allouer 3 millions de
dollars à la Fondation Éco Héros pour sensibiliser plus d’enfants et de familles à la
biodiversité et aux animaux et à leurs habitats.
Soutenir les familles et les communautés
Intensifier la concurrence sur le marché des télécommunications : Plafonner les tarifs
d’itinérance de gros sur le marché intérieur, intensifier la concurrence sur le marché des
services sans fil et offrir des avantages aux consommateurs.
Améliorer l’accès au service internet à large bande dans les collectivités rurales et du
Nord : Allouer 305 millions de dollars pour offrir l’accès aux réseaux haute vitesse à
jusqu’à 280 000 foyers canadiens additionnels.
Soutenir les entreprises agricoles et de pêche : Simplifier les règles fiscales sur
l’exonération cumulative des gains en capital et le roulement intergénérationnel pour
aider les contribuables qui réalisent simultanément des opérations agricoles et de
pêche. Cela sera particulièrement bénéfique au Canada atlantique.
Renforcer le système canadien de salubrité des aliments : Investir plus de 150 millions
de dollars afin d’améliorer les programmes sur la salubrité des aliments de l’Agence
canadienne d’inspection des aliments pour assurer la salubrité de l’approvisionnement
au Canada.
S’attaquer aux prêteurs sur salaire : Collaborer avec les provinces afin d’assurer que
tous les prêteurs sur salaire sont réglementés de façon appropriée et de sensibiliser les
gens aux coûts et aux options aux produits de prêt à taux d’intérêts élevés.
Contrer l’abus des médicaments d’ordonnance au Canada : Investir plus de 44 millions
de dollars pour combattre l’abus des médicaments d’ordonnance.
Élargir l’allégement fiscal lié à la santé : Supprimer la TPS / TVH sur un plus grand
nombre de produits et de services de santé afin de mieux répondre aux besoins des
Canadiens en la matière.
Augmenter le Crédit d'impôt pour frais d’adoption : Augmenter le Crédit d'impôt pour
frais d’adoption à 15 000 $ afin de mieux reconnaître les coûts liés à l’adoption d’un
enfant.
Soutenir les aînés : Allouer 5 millions de dollars additionnels au programme Nouveaux
Horizons pour les aînés afin d’assurer qu’un plus grand nombre d’entre eux peuvent
être actifs dans leur communauté.
Lutter contre la contrebande de tabac : Investir plus de 91 millions de dollars pour
améliorer la capacité de la GRC de lutter contre l’activité dangereuse et illégale qu’est
la contrebande de tabac.
Soutenir nos athlètes : Allouer un financement record pour aider nos athlètes des Jeux
olympiques, paralympiques et olympiques spéciaux qui convoitent l’or et faire la fierté
du Canada sur la scène mondiale.
Aider les athlètes amateurs à épargner pour leur retraite : Permettre que le revenu
versé dans une fiducie au profit d’un athlète amateur puisse être investi dans un REER.
Rendre hommage à nos vétérans : Allouer plus de 100 millions de dollars pour
améliorer le Programme de funérailles et d’inhumation afin d’assurer que tous les
vétérans à revenu moyen ont accès à des services dignes.
Améliorer l’accès aux services aux anciens combattants : Allouer 2 millions de dollars
pour permettre aux vétérans et à leurs familles d’avoir accès au ministère des Anciens
Combattants 24 heures sur 24, 7 jours sur 7.
Réduire la violence : Investir 25 millions de dollars pour poursuivre les efforts déployés
afin de réduire la violence envers les femmes et les filles autochtones.
Offrir un nouvel allégement fiscal aux bénévoles en recherche et sauvetage : Offrir un
crédit d'impôt aux bénévoles participant à des activités de recherche et de sauvetage
afin de reconnaître le rôle important de ceux qui courent des risques pour assurer la
sécurité de nos communautés.
Protéger nos communautés : Allouer jusqu’à 200 millions de dollars à la création d’un
programme national d’atténuation des catastrophes afin de mieux protéger les
Canadiens et leurs communautés contre les catastrophes naturelles.
Offrir une protection contre les inondations : Collaborer avec le secteur des assurances
et les provinces afin de concevoir un modèle national pour les assurances résidentielles
contre les inondations.
Contrôler les séismes : Allouer plus de 11 millions de dollars pour améliorer les
systèmes de contrôle des séismes afin de permettre d’émettre des alertes publiques en
temps opportun dans les régions urbaines et à risque.
Améliorer la santé et la sécurité des communautés de Premières Nations : Investir
320 millions de dollars dans un Plan d’action pour la gestion de l’eau potable et des
eaux usées dans les collectivités des Premières Nations afin de soutenir la construction
et l’entretien des systèmes d’alimentation et de traitement.
Soutenir le processus d’examen des projets de pipeline : Allouer 28 millions de dollars à
l’Office national de l’énergie pour permettre l’examen exhaustif et opportun des
demandes de projet.
Transfert record pour soutenir les services sociaux et de santé au
Nouveau-Brunswick
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Nouveau-Brunswick recevra un soutien majeur par l'intermédiaire d’importants
transferts fédéraux en 2014-2015.
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Tous les transferts fédéraux majeurs aux provinces et aux territoires augmenteront
par rapport aux taux actuels, totalisant 65 milliards de dollars en 2014-2015, une
augmentation de près de 56 % depuis 2005-2006, sous l’ancien gouvernement
libéral.
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Pour Nouveau-Brunswick, les transferts majeurs totaux s’élèveront à 2,6 milliards de
dollars en 2014-2015, notamment :
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1,7 milliards de dollars par l'intermédiaire de la Péréquation, une augmentation
de 318 millions de dollars, ou de 24 pour cent, depuis 2005-2006, sous l’ancien
gouvernement libéral.
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682 millions de dollars par l'intermédiaire du Transfert canadien en matière de
santé, une augmentation de 184 millions de dollars, ou de 37 pour cent, depuis
2005-2006, sous l’ancien gouvernement libéral.
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267 millions de dollars par l'intermédiaire du Transfert canadien en matière de
programmes sociaux, une augmentation de 56 millions de dollars, ou près de 26
pour cent, depuis 2005-2006, sous l’ancien gouvernement libéral.
ECONOMIC ACTION PLAN 2014:
NOVA SCOTIA BACKGROUNDER
INITIATIVES THAT WILL BENEFIT NOVA
SCOTIA
Connecting Canadians with Available Jobs
Launching the Canada Job Grant: Helping Canadians get the skills they need to get indemand jobs.
Helping Canadians with Disabilities: Providing $222 million to create new Labour Market
Agreements for Persons with Disabilities to better help Canadians with disabilities get
the skills they need to fill available jobs.
Supporting Persons with Disabilities: Providing $15 million to the Ready, Willing & Able
Initiative and $11.4 million to Community Works to help persons with intellectual
disabilities and Autism Spectrum Disorders participate in the workforce.
Creating the Canada Apprentice Loan: Helping apprentices registered in Red Seal
trades complete their training by providing access to over $100 million in interest-free
loans each year.
Supporting Canada’s Entrepreneurs: Providing an additional $40 million to the Canada
Accelerator and Incubator Program to help entrepreneurs across the country create new
companies and realize the potential of their ideas.
Supporting Apprenticeship Training: Introducing pilot projects to expand the use of
innovative approaches to training apprentices.
Supporting Youth Employment: Investing $40 million for up to 3,000 internships in high
demand fields and $15 million for up to 1,000 internships in small and medium-sized
businesses.
Helping Students with the Cost of Education: Eliminating the value of student-owned
vehicles from loan assessments to better reflect the needs of students, especially in
rural and suburban communities, who commute or work while studying.
Reforming First Nations K-12 Education: Supporting the implementation of a First
Nations Control of First Nations Education Act that will provide young First Nations
students with an accountable and higher level of education on reserve.
Encouraging Women to Become Entrepreneurs: Providing $150,000 to increase
mentorship among women entrepreneurs.
Supporting Students and Interns: Renewing the Computers for Schools Program with a
$36 million investment to continue to provide students and interns across the country
with computers, helping them get the skills they need to succeed in today’s modern
economy.
Helping Older Workers Get Back to Work: Investing $75 million to renew and expand
the Targeted Initiative for Older Workers so that older Canadians can continue to
contribute to Canada’s economy.
Strengthening Canada’s Labour Market: Launching an enhanced Job Matching Service
and Modernized Job bank to ensure Canadians are given the first chance at available
jobs.
Fostering Job Creation, Innovation and Trade
Reducing the Regulatory Burden: Removing regulatory red tape through the Red Tape
Reduction Action Plan so that small and medium sized businesses can save time and
money.
Reducing the Tax Compliance Burden: Eliminating over 800,000 payroll deduction
remittances to Canada Revenue Agency made every year by over 50,000 small
businesses.
Strengthening Canada’s Intellectual Property Regime: Modernizing Canada’s
intellectual property framework to reduce the red tape burden for Canada’s innovative
businesses.
Promoting Canadian-Made Products: Enhancing consumer awareness of Canadianmade products, home and abroad, by developing a new Made-in-Canada consumer
awareness campaign.
Reducing Barriers to Trade Within Canada: Benefiting consumers across Canada by
strengthening Canada’s economic union.
Securing International Leadership in Science and Innovation: Creating the ‘Canada First
Research Excellence Fund’ by investing $1.5 billion to position post-secondary
institutions across Canada to compete internationally.
Supporting Leading Edge Research: Providing $46 million to the granting councils in
support of advanced research and scientific discoveries at Canada’s leading universities
and colleges.
Enhancing Research Training: Providing $8 million to train more graduates and
postdoctoral fellows in becoming the next generation of innovators and researchers.
Fostering Social Innovation: Providing $10 million to support research at colleges and
polytechnics focusing on education, integration of vulnerable Canadians and community
development.
Responsible resource development, natural heritage and infrastructure and
transportation
Improving Regional and Local Ports: Providing $33 million to support the divestiture of
regional ports to local enterprise and to ensure the continued operation and
maintenance of federally-owned ports.
Supporting Canada’s Forestry Sector: Investing over $90 million to advance cutting
edge technologies to enhance the competitiveness of Canada’s forestry companies
through the Investments in Forest Industry Transformation program.
Improving Small Craft Harbours: Investing an additional $40 million to support the
creation of jobs in coastal communities and ensuring that harbour facilities meet the
needs of commercial fishermen.
Supporting Junior Mineral Exploration: Extending the 15 per-cent Mineral Exploration
Tax Credit for an additional year, helping companies expand their operations and
creating more jobs for Canadians.
Supporting Offshore Oil and Gas Development: Eliminating tariffs on mobile offshore
drilling units used in offshore oil and gas exploration and development. This tariff
elimination will lower business costs by $13 million annually and increase the potential
for valuable resource discoveries in Canada’s Atlantic and Arctic offshore areas.
Protecting Atlantic Canada’s Forestry Sector: Providing $18 million to prevent the
spread of spruce budworm, protecting against the loss of valuable forest resources.
Supporting Atlantic Ferries: Investing $58 million for the continued operation of Atlantic
ferries, including service between Digby, Nova Scotia-Saint John, New Brunswick and
Wood Islands, Prince Edward Island-Caribou, Nova Scotia.
Supporting Farmers: Expanding the tax deferral for livestock to include bees and all
horses over 12 months that are kept for breeding when sold due to drought or excess
moisture.
Removing Red Tape for the Beer Industry: Modernizing the compositional standards for
beer under the Food and Drug Regulations to reflect innovation in the industry.
Sustaining Canada’s National Parks: Providing over $390 million to Parks Canada to
make improvements to highways, bridges, and dams located in our national and historic
canals across Canada.
Conserving Recreational Fisheries: Investing an additional $15 million to extend the
Recreational Fisheries Conservation Partnerships Program to additional conservation
projects in Nova Scotia and across the country.
Investing in Canada’s Extensive Trail Systems: Improving and expanding snowmobile
and recreational trails in Nova Scotia and across the country by providing $10 million to
the National Trails Coalition.
Promoting Conservation and Environmental Education: Providing $3 million to support
Earth Rangers Foundation educate more children and families about biodiversity and
animals in their habitats.
Supporting Families and Communities
Increasing Competition in the Telecommunications Market: Capping wholesale
domestic wireless roaming rates, creating more competition in the wireless market and
benefiting consumers.
Improving Access to Broadband in Rural and Northern Communities: Providing $305
million to extend and enhance access to high-speed broadband networks for up to an
additional 280,000 Canadian households.
Strengthening Canada’s Food Safety System: Investing over $150 million to enhance
the Canadian Food Inspection Agency’s food safety programs to ensure that Canada’s
food supply is safe.
Cracking Down on Payday Lenders: Working with the provinces to ensure that all
payday lenders are appropriately regulated and to raise awareness about the costs and
alternatives to high interest rate lending products.
Confronting Prescription Drug Abuse in Canada: Investing over $44 million to combat
prescription drug abuse in Canada.
Expanding health-related tax relief: Removing the GST / HST on more health care
products and services to better reflect the health care needs of Canadians.
Increasing the Adoption Tax Credit: Increasing the Adoption Expense Tax Credit to
$15,000 to better recognize the costs associated with adopting a child.
Supporting Seniors: Providing an additional $5 million to the New Horizons for Seniors
Program so that more seniors can actively participate in their communities.
Combating Contraband Tobacco: Investing over $91 million to enhance the RCMP’s
ability to crack-down on the dangerous and illegal trade of contraband tobacco.
Supporting our Athletes: Providing record funding to our Olympic, Paralympic and
Special Olympic athletes when they “go for the gold” and make Canada proud on the
world stage.
Helping Amateur Athletes Save for Retirement: Allowing income contributed to an
amateur athlete trust to be invested in an RRSP.
Honouring our Veterans: Providing over $100 million to expand the Funeral and Burial
Program to ensure that veterans of modest means have access to a dignified funeral
and burial.
Increasing Access to Veterans Services: Providing $2 million to enable veterans and
their families access to engage the Department of Veterans Affairs 24 hours a day, 7
days a week.
Reducing Violence: Investing $25 million to continue efforts to reduce violence against
aboriginal women and girls.
New Tax Relief for Search and Rescue Volunteers: Introducing the Search and Rescue
Volunteers Tax Credit in recognition of the important role played by those who put
themselves at risk for the security and safety of our communities.
Protecting our Communities: Providing up to $200 million to establish a National
Disaster Mitigation Program to better protect Canadians and their communities from
natural disasters.
Protecting Against Floods: Working with the insurance industry and provinces to
develop a national approach to residential flood insurance in Canada.
Earthquake Monitoring: Providing over $11 million to upgrade earthquake monitoring
systems to provide timely public alerts in high-risk and urban areas.
Improving the Health and Safety of First Nations Communities: Investing $320 million to
implement the First Nations Water and Waster Action Plan to support the construction
and maintenance of water and wastewater systems.
Record Transfer Support for Social and Health Services in Nova Scotia
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Nova Scotia will receive significant support through major federal transfers in 201415
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levels, totalling $65 billion in 2014-15, an increase of 56% since 2005-06 under the
former Liberal government
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For Nova Scotia, Total Major Transfers will total $3 billion in 2014-15, including:
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$1.6 billion through the Equalization, an increase of $276 million, or 21% since
2005-06 under the former Liberal government
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$847 million through the Canada Health Transfer, an increase of $222 million, or
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$332 million through the Canada Social Transfer, an increase of $66 million, or
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Economic Action Plan 2014 also confirms that Nova Scotia will receive $64
million in payments related to the 2005 offshore arrangements and an advance
payment of $138 million in respect of its cumulative Best-Of Guarantee. Nova
Scotia has also qualified for an extension of its 2005 offshore arrangements for
the eight-year period up to March 31, 2020.
ECONOMIC ACTION PLAN 2014:
PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND
Record Transfer Support for Social and Health Services in Prince Edward Island
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Prince Edward Island will receive significant support through major federal transfers in
2013-14.
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levels, totalling $65 billion in 2014-15, an increase of 56% since 2005-06 under the former
Liberal government.
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For Prince Edward Island, Total Major Transfers will total $542 million in 2014-15,
including:
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$360 million through Equalization, an increase of almost $83 million, or 30% since 200506 under the former Liberal government.
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$131 million through the Canada Health Transfer, an increase of $39 million, or almost
43% since 2005-06 under the former Liberal government.
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$51 million through the Canada Social Transfer, an increase of $12 million, or almost
32% since 2005-06 under the former Liberal government.

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