Champagne is an old-school retail politician who prefers pressing the flesh to digital communications. Liberals tend to describe him with one word: gregarious.

Canada's budget shortfall will more than double this year as Prime Minister Mark Carney pours billions of dollars to fight U.S. tariffs, boost defense spending and diversify trade, his maiden budget proposal showed on Tuesday.

Ontario’s finance minister says the new federal budget put forward by Prime Minister Mark Carney’s government “lacks some ambition” on infrastructure, nation-building and tariff relief.Minister Peter Bethlenfalvy told reporters at Queen’s Park Wednesday he had spoken with his federal counterpart,

Canada is set to launch a C$50 billion ($35.5 billion) infrastructure fund to build projects in sectors such as hospitals, transportation and housing, as the government tries to boost an economy that’s being squeezed by US tariffs.

Canada's Prime Minister Mark Carney will unleash a major fiscal stimulus in his budget proposal on Tuesday as he aims to unlock billions of dollars in investment and transform the Canadian economy to rely less on the United States,

OTTAWA--Canadian Finance Minister François-Philippe Champagne says the government's budget plan, to be released Tuesday, represents a shift the country must take to secure growth in a global economy rocked by President Trump's trade policy.

The government of Prime Minister Mark Carney unveiled a program of big spending to spur Canada’s economy and reduce its dependence on the United States.

Critical infrastructure projects in Canada’s North that have been waiting on federal funding for decades are finally gaining traction as the rest of Canada wakes up to its northern border, Northwest Territories Finance Minister Caroline Wawzonek says.

The budget, dubbed an “investment budget”, was presented by the Finance Minister François-Philippe Champagne and includes big-ticket items that are expected to bring the economy out of a slump it has