| Department of Finance Canada | news releases
Next week, from May 11 to 13, the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance, the Honourable Chrystia Freeland, will attend the meeting of the G7 Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors in Niigata, Japan.
| Department of Finance Canada | speeches
There are 865,000 more Canadians working today than when COVID first hit. We have recovered 128 per cent of the jobs that were lost in those first months—compared to just 114 per cent in the United States.
| Department of Finance Canada | speeches
The investments we are making today will be critical to the future of Toronto’s economy and the daily lives of hundreds of thousands of Torontonians. They will help to build a transit system that is reliable and sustainable. And this investment will help continue to build a city we can all be proud of and be glad to live in.
| Department of Finance Canada | statements
Mr. Banga has the global experience and a commitment to advancing social and economic progress that will serve the World Bank well as it confronts the most pressing challenges facing today’s global economy.
| Department of Finance Canada | readouts
Today at the White House, the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance, Chrystia Freeland, co-chaired a productive first meeting of the joint Canada-U.S. Energy Transformation Task Force, together with the U.S. Special Presidential Coordinator for Global Infrastructure and Energy Security, Amos J. Hochstein. The Task Force was first announced by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and President Joe Biden in Ottawa on March 24, 2023.
| Department of Finance Canada | backgrounders
Following the Government of New Brunswick’s request in February 2023 that the federal pollution pricing fuel charge replace the province’s own fuel charge, the Government of Canada intends to apply the federal backstop fuel charge in New Brunswick as of July 1, 2023. New Brunswick will continue to apply its own provincially-administered fuel charge for industrial emitters.
| Department of Finance Canada | news releases
This week, from April 28 to 29, the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance, the Honourable Chrystia Freeland, will attend a meeting of European Union Economy and Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors in Stockholm, Sweden.
| Department of Finance Canada | news releases
Today, the Honourable Chrystia Freeland, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance, announced the reappointment of Phyllis Clark as Chairperson of the Board of Directors of the Royal Canadian Mint for another five-year term, and appointed Evan Price to the Board of Directors of the Royal Canadian Mint for a four-year term.
| Department of Finance Canada | backgrounders
Phyllis Clark has been the Chair of the Board of Directors of the Royal Canadian Mint since 2018, when she was appointed for a five-year term. She is also currently a Director of the Alberta Investment Management Corporation (AIMCo), Director of Inuvialuit Investment Corporation, Director and Treasurer of the Glenn Gould Foundation, and Chair of the Edmonton Symphony and Concert Hall Foundation Board.
| Department of Finance Canada | backgrounders
Evan Price has extensive experience as a senior executive and entrepreneur in a variety of industries and companies. He was President and CEO of CO2 Solutions Inc., a company providing carbon capture technology to industrial emitters, until it was acquired by Saipem S.p.A. in 2019. In 1992, he also co-founded Auberge Saint-Antoine in Québec City, Quebec.
