Spend Big, Cut Deep: Understanding Canada’s 2025 Federal Budget

About this episode

This episode explores Canada's 2025 Federal Budget with economist Rebekah Young.

On November 4th, Canadian Finance Minister François-Philippe Champagne tabled the 2025 Federal Budget - a plan that promises to spend big and cut deep . Join us for this IONA Asks episode taking a deep dive at Canada's 2025 Federal budget with Rebekah Young, economist at ScotiaBank. An episode produced by Gérémy Côté and Ben Doupe, edited by Christina Wu. This episode was recorded on Wednesday, November 12th, 2025.

People in this episode

Guest: Rebekah Young

Topics covered

• Canada's Federal Budget
• Economics
• Government Spending
• Fiscal Policy
• Budget Cuts

Keywords

• Canada
• Federal Budget
• François-Philippe Champagne
• Rebekah Young
• ScotiaBank
• Economics
• Government Spending

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: ScotiaBank

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