{"id":19165,"date":"2013-02-26T11:11:26","date_gmt":"2013-02-26T16:11:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=19165"},"modified":"2013-02-26T11:11:26","modified_gmt":"2013-02-26T16:11:26","slug":"budget-cutting-gets-real-in-ottawa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2013\/02\/26\/budget-cutting-gets-real-in-ottawa\/","title":{"rendered":"Budget cutting gets real in Ottawa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>David Akin tweeted some news about upcoming budget cuts for various Canadian government agencies:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p>Ottawa cutting budget for Aboriginal Affairs in FY14 by $480 million or -5.7% compared to FY13 &#8220;Estimates to Date&#8221;. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search\/%23bdgt13\">#bdgt13<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; David Akin (@davidakin) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/davidakin\/status\/306375910158893056\">February 26, 2013<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p>RCMP Public Complaints Commission loses 32% of its funding or $2.6 million in FY14 vs FY13 &#8220;Estimates To Date&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search\/%23cdnpoli\">#cdnpoli<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search\/%23bdgt13\">#bdgt13<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; David Akin (@davidakin) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/davidakin\/status\/306376054157762561\">February 26, 2013<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p>Canadian International Development Agency cuts = $471 million in FY14 or 13% of its budget. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search\/%23cdnpoli\">#cdnpoli<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search\/%23bdgt13\">#bdgt13<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; David Akin (@davidakin) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/davidakin\/status\/306376391010697217\">February 26, 2013<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p>Think <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search\/%23CPC\">#CPC<\/a> hates culture? @<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jamesmoore_org\">jamesmoore_org<\/a> &#8216;s Heritage dept one of just 5 major govt depts or agencies to get funding boost of 5% or more.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; David Akin (@davidakin) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/davidakin\/status\/306376560590594048\">February 26, 2013<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p>Biggest cuts pct: VIA Rail (-61%) AECL (-44) Public Safety &amp; Emergency Preparedness (-29.2) Transport (-27.7) Infrastructure Canada (-26.1)<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; David Akin (@davidakin) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/davidakin\/status\/306376766254104577\">February 26, 2013<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p>Major depts biggest % boosts: Cdn Space Agency (+35), Natural Resources (+11.2) HRSDC (+6) Citizenship (+5.8) and Heritage (+5.3)<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search\/%23bdgt13\">#bdgt13<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; David Akin (@davidakin) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/davidakin\/status\/306377191774642177\">February 26, 2013<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search\/%23CPC\">#CPC<\/a> cuts law-and-order: Correctional Services Canada loses $428 m or -14.2%,CBSA loses $357M (-17.5%), RCMP trimmed $58M (-2.1%) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search\/%23bdgt13\">#bdgt13<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; David Akin (@davidakin) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/davidakin\/status\/306379051810050049\">February 26, 2013<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>David Akin tweeted some news about upcoming budget cuts for various Canadian government agencies: Ottawa cutting budget for Aboriginal Affairs in FY14 by $480 million or -5.7% compared to FY13 &#8220;Estimates to Date&#8221;. #bdgt13 &mdash; David Akin (@davidakin) February 26, 2013 RCMP Public Complaints Commission loses 32% of its funding or $2.6 million in FY14 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,84],"tags":[697,258],"class_list":["post-19165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cancon","category-government","tag-budget","tag-stephenharper"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-4Z7","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19165","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19165"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19165\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19170,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19165\/revisions\/19170"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}