Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland says spending on clean energy and green technology might not have been a big item in the 2023 federal budget if it hadn’t had to compete with US infrastructure spending. .
After submitting the budget to the House of Commons on Tuesday, Freeland told CTV’s Powerplay host Vasi Kapelos that her government “has been working on this for a long time” and that “the economy and the environment are in harmony”. He said he ran a campaign.
Still, she said she doesn’t believe she invested in a clean economy on the scale of the 2023 budget. national borders.
“I don’t think we would have done as much if the IRA hadn’t been put in place,” Freeland said, adding that the Liberal government has been pushing clean economy policies for years. Take the carbon price as an example.
“It is also true that the US plan, the IRA, is a game changer,” she said. “They have put a lot of money into it, and it was very important for us, who were ahead in this race, to keep up.”
Freeland discusses the 2023 federal budget in the video at the top of this article.
