Other federal budget highlights include scrapping contentious luxury tax, review of Canada Strong Pass and banking fees

OTTAWA — Here’s a look at some of the random takeaways from Budget 2025.

Millions for gun grab

One of the Liberals’ more controversial — and costly — policies, Budget 2025 realigns the financial impact of the federal government’s so-called “assault-style firearms compensation program” to $38.7 million over three years, starting in fiscal year 2025-26.

The program, the budget promises, will be implemented “in the most efficient and cost-effective way possible,” promising to keep it within its existing funding targets of $742 million.

The government has so far spent upward of $70 million to develop the program with the Parliamentary Budget Officer indicating in 2021

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