Annual Submission to the Standing Committee on Finance

CSLA 2026 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, safe and complete communities.

#2: Establish active and public transportation network connectivity as a mandatory condition of federal housing and infrastructure funding. 

#3: Establish green development standards for all federally funded civil and public infrastructure projects, including requirements for nature-based solutions, carbon accounting, and landscape carbon sequestration.

#4: Formally recognize and engage landscape architects and allied design professionals as essential partners in federal programs relating to housing, infrastructure, climate adaptation, and biodiversity.

Read the full brief here.

CSLA's Previous Budget Recommendations

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