November 14, 2025

Budget 2025: A Plan To Build Canada Strong

November 14, 2025

Dear Friends and Neighbours,

It’s been an exciting start to my time in office, and I cannot thank you enough for trusting me to be your voice in Parliament. Serving as the Member of Parliament for Vancouver Quadra is the honour of my life. For those who don’t know me, I grew up here, attended local schools and the University of British Columbia, and was raised on the Musqueam Nation, where my family has lived for generations.

My commitment to Vancouver Quadra extends far beyond the last election, this is just the beginning. Every day, I strive to be a strong, responsive voice for our community. To show up, listen attentively, and never forget who I serve.

Through this monthly newsletter, I will keep you informed about my work in Ottawa and in our constituency. Over the past few months, I’ve met with constituents, local organizations, small businesses, students, and community leaders across the riding. I’ve focused on listening and learning, and I look forward to seeing many of you at upcoming events. Please don’t hesitate to reach out, my door is always open. You can expect regular updates from my office through these newsletters.

My predecessor, former Vancouver Quadra MP Joyce Murray

Budget 2025: Canada Strong

This past election Canadians delivered a clear message: to build Canada Strong. Budget 2025 is our way of delivering. In the face of global uncertainty, our government is focused on delivering results for you. We are building major infrastructure, homes, and industries that will grow our economy and create lasting prosperity. We are strengthening our social services, investing in our communities, securing our borders, and protecting our way of life. We will empower Canadians with better careers, stronger public services, and more affordable living, and we are making generational investments to fulfill the change you have demanded. Together, we will build Canada Strong.

Honoured to serve as Parliamentary Secretary to my friend, the Hon. Julie Dabrusin, Minister of Environment and Climate Change Canada

Spending Less, Investing More:

Canada’s new Government is spending less, so we can invest more. To deliver on our election commitments, we are modernizing government operations. Our Comprehensive Expenditure Review will remove redundant duplications, consolidate internal services, and right-sizing programs to increase efficiency. These efforts will yield $60 billion in savings over five years.

Making Life More Affordable:

From speaking to residents across Vancouver Quadra, I've heard directly from many of you who are struggling to make ends meet. Since our first day in office, Canada’s new government has been focused on reducing the cost of living and creating new opportunities for Canadians. One of the first bills introduced this session was the Making Life More Affordable for Canadians Act. This delivered a middle-class tax cut, providing relief to nearly 22 million Canadians and eliminating the GST for first-time homebuyers. Budget 2025 builds on these efforts by:

Investing $70 million in the New Horizons for Seniors Program to support projects that improve seniors’ quality of life, promote their full participation in society, and expand awareness of elder abuse.
Launching Automated Federal Benefits to help 5.5 million low-income Canadians get the federal support they need.
Providing permanent funding for the National School Food Program, saving families with two children an average of $800 per year on groceries.
Renewing the Canada Strong Pass, ensuring families and young people can explore the country for less with free or discounted access to rail travel, national parks, museums, and galleries.

Meeting with community members at Crofton Manor

Building a Stronger, More Resilient Economy:

While we cannot control the actions of other countries, as the Prime Minister said, we are masters in our own home, and our government is choosing to build. We are diversifying our trade, launching major nation-building projects, and catalyzing investment to make Canada the strongest, and fastest growing economy in the G7.

Fast-tracking nation-building projects with provinces, territories, and Indigenous Peoples, adding $60 billion to our economy and creating thousands of jobs.
Launching a Trade Diversification Strategy to expand opportunities for Canadian businesses, with a plan to double overseas, non-U.S. exports within a decade.
A Buy Canadian Policy to support our lumber and steel industries, requiring government contractors to use Canadian materials.
A Productivity Super-Deduction, offering enhanced tax credits that will lower costs, spur private investment, and help Canadian businesses grow while making Canada the most tax-competitive country for new business investment in the G7.
A new Digital Jobs and Training Platform, reskilling for 50,000 workers and connecting Canadians to high-paying careers.
Strengthening competition and consumer choice to lower costs by boosting telecom competition, making it easier to switch providers, advancing open banking and modernizing payments.

Visiting Government of Canada funded projects in the Lower Mainland

Climate:

Building a strong economy for the future means building a clean one, and as we transition to net-zero, Canada is well positioned to take advantage of these new growth opportunities. Our Climate Competitiveness Strategy will accelerate investment to drive down emissions in key sectors, boost market access for Canadian exports, and grow jobs in our community. Budget 2025 includes measures that will drive growth in nuclear, hydro, wind, energy storage, and grid infrastructure to make Canada a leader in the low-carbon economy. Our government is determined to deliver on our promise of making Canada a clean energy superpower.

We are strengthening industrial carbon pricing to reduce emissions and provide long-term certainty for businesses and investors.
With Clean Economy Investment Tax Credits, we will supercharge affordable, net-zero energy projects that turn our natural wealth into lasting prosperity while protecting the planet.
A new Youth Climate Corps will provide green skills training and job placements for young people, helping communities respond to climate emergencies, support recovery, and relieve strain on the Canadian Armed Forces.
We are supporting Critical Mineral Projects that power the technologies and renewable energy infrastructure needed for the green transition including solar panels, electric vehicle batteries, and energy storage systems.

Announcing our government’s $2.5 million investment to support Metro Vancouver’s Waste-to-Energy District Energy Project

Defending Canada:

In an increasingly dangerous and divided world, Canada must be ready to defend our values, secure our sovereignty, and to stand as a strong, reliable partner with our allies. Recent events have shown us that sovereignty does not come free, and that is why our government is rebuilding, rearming, and reinvesting in the Canadian Armed Forces (CAF). Budget 2025 will deliver investments to address today’s challenges from a position of strength, determination, and action. These measures include:

An extra $81.8 billion over five years to meet our NATO targets.
Recruiting and retaining a strong fighting force, including generational pay raises for the CAF, supporting health care, and building base housing.
Expanding Canada’s military capabilities, including investments in light utility, and armoured vehicles, counter-drone and long-range precision-strike capabilities, and Arctic surveillance.
Creating a new Defence Investment Agency for streamlined procurement.
Establishing the Bureau of Research, Engineering and Advanced Leadership in Science (BOREALIS) to ensure our forces have made-in-Canada innovation, advanced research and technology.

Supercharging Home Building Across the Country:

Canada faces a national housing supply and affordability crisis. Our new government is taking bold action to double housing construction, restore affordability, and reduce homelessness. Build Canada Homes, a new federal agency, will accelerate construction by:

Building and expanding community infrastructure through the new Build Communities Strong Fund, with $50 billion to increase housing supply, public transit, and community services.
Partnering with industry, other orders of government, and Indigenous communities to build affordable housing, including co-op housing, at scale and speed.
Deploying capital, securing demand, and harnessing innovative technologies to build faster and more sustainably.
Building Canadian projects with Canadian lumber and other domestic materials.
Our government is working with provinces to provide low-cost financing for builders, offer incentives for purpose-built rental construction, cut red tape, invest in infrastructure, and expand the skilled construction workforce.

Build Canada Homes has the potential to slash construction timelines by half, reduce costs by up to 20 per cent, and lower construction emissions by approximately 20 per cent.

Visiting a local mass-timber manufacturing facility. Building homes with mass timber is one of the ways we’ll supercharge homebuilding across the country while lowering emissions

If you'd like to learn more about Budget 2025 please click here.

It has been a pleasure to advocate for you in Ottawa and throughout this budgetary consultation process, and I am incredibly grateful for the support I’ve received since I began this role.

As always, please reach out to my office with any questions or concerns. If anyone you know would like to receive these updates, please direct them to my office at [email protected].

Yours truly,

Wade Grant, M.P.
Member of Parliament for Vancouver Quadra