Pre-Budget Submission in Advance of the 2025 Federal Budget
List of Recommendations
Recommendation 1: The Government of Canada work with Canada’s libraries to create a funding program to increase access to technology and learning tools that support innovation in communities across Canada.
Recommendation 2: The Government of Canada recognize the significant impact of mental health and addiction in Canadian communities and works with provincial governments to appropriately fund community mental health and addiction services to ensure critical community services are available to those in need in our communities.
Recommendation 3: The Government of Canada expand the funding parameters of the Equitable Access to Reading Program to ensure that the Centre for Equitable Library Access can continue providing a full range of equitable reading services to the 5.2 million people in Canada who have difficulty reading print, and make the Equitable Access to Reading Fund (EARP) permanent and tie future increases in the funding allocated to the EARP to the cost-of-living index.