CSLA 2025 Pre-budget Consultation Brief Submission to the House of Commons Standing Committee on Finance
The CSLA encourages you to meet with your MP to share these messages. Learn more about the advocacy tools the CSLA offers to members.
This year, the CSLA calls on the federal government to:
#1: Prioritize funding and establish criteria for housing policies and projects that foster resilient, healthy and complete communities.
#2: Require that all civil and public works projects that receive funding from Infrastructure Canada fully explore the feasibility of nature-based solution alternatives.
#3: Increase investment and support for ecosystem conservation and restoration.
#4: Invest in policies and initiatives that promote reconciliation, justice, diversity, equity, and inclusion in the built environment to ensure that all communities have access to high-quality, sustainable, and inclusive public spaces.
CSLA's Previous Budget Recommendations
- For 2018 budget: Re-thinking where, why and how we build
- For the 2019 budget: Ensuring Canada’s Competitiveness by
Building Resilient Communities - For the 2020 budget: Climate Emergency: The Required Transition to a Low Carbon Economy
- For the 2021 budget: Restarting the Canadian economy, as it recovers from the COVID-19 pandemic
- For the 2022 budget: Stronger Canadian communities through green investment and healthy landscape
innovation - For the 2024 budget: Investing in Nature, People, and Innovation: Landscape Architecture's Role in a Greener Canada