2017 Canadian federal budget

Expenditures

$8.48 billion in defence spending is re-allocated for use after 2036 to purchase fixed-wing search and rescue aircraft and light-armoured vehicles.

An additional $1.8 billion over six years is allocated into provincial and territorial skills training programs and an additional $900 million into workforce development agreements. Grants for part time students will be increased by fifty percent, and an additional $59.8 million over four years is proposed to expand eligibility for student grants.

The budget included the Strategic Innovation Fund, a novel programme which was slated to run for five years and provide $1.26 billion over its life.

$40 million is allocated for the creation of a database which would provide information on property purchases and sales, foreign ownership and demographic information; and an additional $11.2 billion is proposed over eleven years for affordable housing. An additional $300 million and $225 million for housing in the north and off-reserve indigenous housing, respectively, is proposed over eleven years.

An additional $828.2 million to expand health resources on reserves is proposed over five years.

$187.3 million is proposed over six years, which would provide a $1,000 benefit per month to veterans' caregivers and $133.9 million over six years is proposed to create a tax benefit to support veterans' education.