Federal Budget: Highlights by the numbers
$1.4 billion
Projected budget surplus in 2015-16
$1.3 billion
Amount over six years, beginning in 2017-18, the government will provide to the Canada Foundation for Innovation for research infrastructure at universities, colleges and research hospitals
$11.8 billion
Promised boost to National Defence spending over 10 years, by increasing the annual escalator to the department’s budget to three per cent, starting in 2017-18
Up to $360.3 million
For the extended and expanded mission against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, and $7.1 million for the recently announced military training mission in Ukraine.
$27 billion
Projected increase in health care transfers to the provinces …read more
Source: Ottawa Citizen
