Alternative Federal Budget 2024: Building momentum: A federal budget for now and the future

The opinions and recommendations in this report, and any errors, are those of the authors, and do not necessarily reflect the views of the funders of this report. [...] The AFB will allocate $20 million over the next three years for the development of a new employment equity regime, aligned with the efforts of the Office of the Pay Equity Commissioner and the Office of the Accessibility Commissioner. [...] To ensure progress along the way, the capacity and resources of the Office of the Federal Housing Advocate will be strengthened to identify and remedy systemic violations of the right to housing. [...] The 2021 federal budget committed $30 billion over five years (2021- 22 to 2025-26) to build the foundation of a primarily not-for-profit and public Canada-wide early learning and child care system.1 The 2022 federal budget created a $625 million Early Learning and Child Care Infrastructure Fund to contribute to financing the capital cost of increasing the number of spaces, although the money has. [...] The challenge—and the opportunity in Federal Budget 2024—is to build on the parent fee reductions from 2021 and develop what is now a mostly publicly funded system in a way that will allow the realization 34 / Building momentum: A federal budget for now and the future of the aspirations set out in Bill C-35.