A recovery without PSE - 2021-2022 Federal Budget Highlights and Analysis FIN) (002

Educational Inequities in Canada’s North Aimed at addressing inequities in access to higher education for Northern residents, especially Indigenous peoples, the Budget proposes $8 million over two years, starting in 2021-22, to the Government of the Northwest Territories to support the transformation of Aurora College to a polytechnic university. [...] CAUT is disappointed to see no recognition of the pandemic impact on basic research or the need to take further action on the recommendations in the Advisory Panel report to ensure the stability and sustainability of Canada’s knowledge and research ecosystem. [...] To meet the federal government’s goal to provide access to 98 per cent of the country to high-speed broadband by 2026, and 100 per cent by 2030, the Budget makes an investment of $1 billion over six years, starting in 2021-22, to the Universal Broadband Fund to support a Canadian Association of University Teachers 3 A recovery without PSE? // 2021-2022 Federal Budget Highlights & Analysis April 20. [...] While CAUT welcomes the extended measures as young people are struggling to find and keep stable employment and families are struggling with education costs during the pandemic, the federal government needs to work with the provinces to contain and lower costs of education, and to tackle issues of affordability and access. [...] This measure is retroactive to postdoctoral fellowship income received in the 2011 to 2020 taxation years, where the taxpayer submits a request in writing to the Canada Revenue Agency for an adjustment to their RRSP room for the relevant years.