Steven MacKinnon

Voting Yea means supporting formal authorization of the supplementary appropriations and enabling the federal government to legally spend the listed amounts for 2022–23 as set out in the Supplementary Estimates (A).

Steven MacKinnon supports exploring expansion of the Port of Churchill to strengthen and diversify Canada’s supply chain, viewing the port as central to building a stronger, more resilient Canadian economy better connected to global markets through improved rail, port and Arctic shipping links.

Steven MacKinnon endorses using the Port of Churchill as a central element in efforts to build a stronger, more resilient Canadian economy by better connecting Canada to global markets, signaling support for initiatives that expand Arctic shipping and export opportunities.

Steven MacKinnon defends the Budget Implementation Act being presented as a single omnibus bill, saying he has no regrets, that it’s a comprehensive economic plan to improve Canadians’ lives immediately and to address tariffs, diversify exports, accelerate housing and job creation.

Voting Yea means supporting increased federal spending/transfers to provide targeted cost-of-living relief through larger and advance GSTC payments, accepting the fiscal cost to deliver near-term support.

Steven MacKinnon urged Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre to 'get out of the way' and help pass the government's new affordability measures, pressing him to fast-track ideas that make food affordable by allowing the bills to proceed.

Steven MacKinnon said Trump’s threats would not deter the Liberals and that they will continue efforts to make Canada stronger, including through trade, committing the government to pursue trade initiatives despite U.S. pressure.

MacKinnon supports strengthening Canada’s supply chain by investing in and modernizing Port Saint John to diversify non‑U.S. trade, enhance cold‑chain capacity for food security, and keep ports operational, pledging federal cooperation with local and provincial partners.

MacKinnon supports prioritizing substantial federal spending to quickly build Canada’s first high-speed rail, accelerating groundbreaking to 2029 and framing it as a 'generational investment' that will shape the economy and create lasting benefits.

Steven MacKinnon defended the prime minister’s costly Egypt trip, saying Canadians were proud Carney attended the Gaza peace summit and indicating the expenditure was justified by the importance of his participation on the world stage rather than conceding spending-priority criticisms.

Support government spending package for 2026

Steven MacKinnon says he is concerned the Liberal government's budget may not pass because opposition parties have ruled out supporting it; he warns they currently lack the necessary votes and are worried about obtaining sufficient parliamentary support.

MacKinnon says the government currently lacks the votes to pass the upcoming federal budget, urges opposition parties to decide whether they want another election, insists the Liberals have a mandate to move the country forward economically, and rejects unattainable Conservative demands.

MacKinnon stated the finance minister will present the budget in October, emphasized the importance of the upcoming federal budget, indicated it would be brought forward next month, and declined to provide details on what to expect.

Steven MacKinnon said the upcoming federal budget deficit will be "substantial" and that some "hard choices" will be made with respect to spending to keep the government's debt load under control, indicating readiness to curb spending.

Voting Yea means supporting legal protection for Canada's supply management import controls — preventing increases in tariff rate quotas or reductions in over‑quota tariffs for dairy, poultry and eggs to preserve domestic producer protection.

Voting Yea means endorsing the specific spending choices and departmental allocations set out in the Supplementary Estimates (B), allowing those priorities to be funded.

Support government spending package for 2024

Support authority for Schedule 2 multi-year charging and ordering provisions

Support regional economic development funding for Atlantic Canada under the Act

Support appropriations to maintain tax administration and compliance capacity

Support funding for federal employment and benefit programs administered by ESDC

Voting Yea means endorsing the government's specified allocation of supplementary funds and the spending priorities identified in the schedule.

Support clarifying appropriation and funding mechanics for the Commission

Support transitional arrangements to transfer staff and functions smoothly

Support allowing governments to fund regulator expenses for requested work

Support establishing a revenues regime to capture value from submerged land licences

Support expanding worker safety protections to offshore renewable energy workers

Voting Yea means supporting measures that strengthen unions' bargaining power and strike effectiveness by banning many forms of replacement labour, enforcing timely dispute resolution, and protecting reinstatement rights.

Voting Yea means supporting tougher enforcement and deterrence to protect workers' rights during strikes/lockouts, including high fines and administrative penalties to discourage use of replacement labour and ensure reinstatement.

Voting Yea supports allocating federal funds to implement a statutory framework for a fair net-zero transition including administrative bodies and programmatic supports.

Voting Yea endorses explicit inclusion of unions and collective representation in transition planning and advisory structures.

Voting Yea favors government-led, planned efforts to promote job creation tied to the low-carbon transition.

Voting Yea supports legislated attention to protecting workers from adverse impacts of decarbonization and providing transition assistance.

Support government spending package for 2025

Voting Yea means supporting legislative tariff and customs changes necessary to implement the FTA and facilitate preferential trade between Canada and Ukraine.

Voting Yea means supporting the appropriation and payment of Canada's share of institutional and administrative costs arising from implementing the FTA.

Voting Yea means supporting a temporary tax incentive to encourage construction of purpose-built rental housing by enhancing the GST rebate, with the aim of increasing rental supply and improving housing affordability.

Voting Yea means supporting a package of fiscal and regulatory actions intended to reduce household costs by stimulating rental supply and curbing anti-competitive/excessive pricing in essential markets.

Voting Yea means supporting stronger competition enforcement tools to prevent excessive and unfair selling prices, intended to protect consumers and address affordability pressures in essential markets (e.g., groceries).

Support funding to ensure CRA can administer and enforce income tax laws.

Support funding for regional economic development and job-creation programs in Atlantic Canada.

Support appropriations enabling delivery of employment supports and benefits.

Voting Yea means supporting the parliamentary approval of the supplementary appropriations and enabling the government to spend the specified $20.48B on the listed federal programs and obligations for 2023–24.

Voting Yea means supporting targeted supplementary spending to support federal housing measures administered through CMHC, enabling reimbursements and program expenditures identified in the Supplementary Estimates.

Voting Yea means supporting the federal prioritization of ongoing public spending to create and sustain a Canada-wide early learning and child care system and the use of federal funds to achieve accessibility, affordability and quality targets.

Voting Yea means supporting federal policy that prioritizes improving labor conditions, recruitment and retention in the early childhood education workforce as part of child care reform.

Support government spending package for 2023

Supports central oversight by Treasury Board for official-languages policy and compliance

Supports public reporting and employee information on language compliance

Supports statutory language protections for employees and consumers in federally regulated private businesses

Supports establishing complaint and referral mechanisms for workplace language rights

Supports statutory protections for workers who exercise language rights and measures to foster French

Voting Nay means opposing the creation of a targeted tax deduction on grounds that it reduces federal revenue, creates a tax preference for a specific occupational group, may add administrative complexity or be open to misuse, and that employer responsibility or other tax provisions should address the issue.

Voting Nay means opposing using the tax code as a mechanism for worker protection in this instance, arguing that employer responsibility, collective bargaining, or direct labour standards would be the appropriate mechanisms, and that this approach may unevenly benefit specific worker groups.

Voting Yea means supporting measures to protect firefighters as workers — improved prevention, recognition of occupational cancers, standards review, screening and support for worker health.

Voting Yea means supporting the accompanying tax-law changes needed to integrate the Canada disability benefit into the federal tax and transfer framework.

Voting Yea means supporting the creation of a new federal spending program to reduce poverty among working-age persons with disabilities and backing federal prioritization of income supports and related administrative arrangements.

Voting Yea means supporting stronger public mechanisms to resolve commercial disputes between platforms and news organizations to ensure fair outcomes and protect domestic news markets.

Voting Yea means supporting a law that creates a formal bargaining framework to rebalance bargaining power between large digital platforms and news organizations, seeks to secure payment/terms for news content and to sustain Canadian journalism.

Support enhanced reporting to reduce tax avoidance via trusts

Support imposing a temporary surcharge on very large financial groups to recoup excess profits

Support targeted tax credit to boost critical mineral exploration in Canada

Support treating short-term housing dispositions as business income to limit quick speculative gains

Support new tax-advantaged vehicle to help first-time homebuyers save

Support enabling government capitalization and governance for Canada Growth Fund

Support eliminating interest accrual for students and apprentices to reduce borrower burdens

Voting Yea means supporting the government's allocation of additional funds to cover departmental and program expenses set out in the Supplementary Estimates (B) for 2022–23.

Voting Yea means supporting federal action to create jobs and training opportunities tied to green-economy projects in the Prairies.

Voting Yea means supporting stronger legal protection for pension plan beneficiaries and retirees by prioritizing payment of unfunded pension liabilities and requiring transparency on plan solvency; it favors shifting some financial risks back onto employers/insolvency estates and increasing oversight of pension funding.

Voting Yea means approving the enabling tax-law changes needed to implement the benefits and their administration under existing federal tax/excise frameworks.

Voting Yea means supporting direct, targeted federal assistance to reduce household rental cost pressures as a response to rising cost of living.

Voting Yea means supporting a targeted cash-transfer-style response to ease immediate cost-of-living pressures for vulnerable households.

Voting Yea means supporting measures that align artists' labour protections and bargaining frameworks with the updated broadcasting/streaming environment, potentially strengthening creators' negotiating position and access to remuneration.

Support providing the agency with the appropriated operating funds and authority to make recoverable CPP/EI expenditures for 2022–23

Support expanding tax relief for northern residents by increasing optional travel expense claims

Support compensating farming businesses in backstop jurisdictions for fuel charge impacts via a refundable credit

Support providing direct financial support to businesses for ventilation upgrades via a refundable tax credit

Support capping the recovery period for CEBA loan amounts, providing certainty for borrowers and administrators

Support clarifying and limiting EI benefit durations for certain seasonal workers to adjust program parameters

Voting Yea means endorsing the specific spending priorities and allocations to the named departments and Crown corporations, allowing these programs and payments to proceed.

Support continued federal wage subsidy to help employers retain employees through May 7, 2022.

Support granting the government limited regulatory flexibility to extend supports until July 2, 2022.

Support independent audit and parliamentary reporting to improve program accountability and effectiveness.

Support aligning budget implementation law with newly enacted labour protections and expenditures.

Support adding statutory leave to protect workers unable to work for COVID-related health reasons.

Support creation of a federal lockdown-specific income support for affected workers.

Voting Yea means supporting the allocation of operating funds and commitment authorities necessary for DND to continue its operations and obligations.

Voting Yea means endorsing capital and procurement spending for DND, enabling acquisition and transfer of equipment and related defence projects.

Voting Yea means approving dedicated funding and authorities for CSE operations and cybersecurity work outlined in the Supplementary Estimates.

Voting Yea means supporting a legal limit on the government's ability to make trade negotiation concessions on supply‑managed products, signalling priority for domestic agricultural protections over negotiated market access.

Support allocating funds for Canada's military spending and operations

Support controlled mechanisms for Commission access to classified material with safeguards

Support creating legal framework to manage transboundary hydrocarbon fields under bilateral agreements

Voting Yea means supporting extra funding to maintain or enhance intelligence and security capabilities funded through CSIS.

Voting Yea means supporting formal parliamentary approval and domestic implementation of the Canada–Ukraine Free Trade Agreement to enable preferential market access and obligations under the FTA.

Voting Yea means supporting incorporation of FTA dispute settlement and arbitration procedures into domestic law so trade disputes with Ukraine can be resolved under the Agreement's mechanisms.

Voting Yea means supporting clearer and potentially stricter criteria for trade‑agreement investor status and tighter timing/notice rules to ensure trade partners’ investors are appropriately screened under Canada’s national security framework.

Voting Yea means supporting stronger legal frameworks for sharing and protecting sensitive information between Canadian authorities and foreign counterparts as part of investment screening and for empowering ministers to impose interim measures to protect national security.

Voting Yea means supporting a narrowly tailored exception that balances consumer repair needs with security by limiting circumvention to sole-purpose maintenance and excluding infringing acts, thereby enabling legitimate repair without wholesale removal of protections.

Voting Yea means supporting enhanced transparency and inter-jurisdictional information sharing to help detect and prevent terrorist financing and other security threats that exploit opaque corporate ownership.

Support funding to sustain border management and security operations.

Support appropriations sustaining foreign aid programs and diplomatic operations.

Voting Yea means supporting additional funding for airport security operations and capital needs, enabling CATSA to maintain and upgrade screening and other aviation security measures.

Voting Yea means supporting integration of international organization/sanctions compliance into domestic authorization processes to ensure adherence to UN obligations.

Voting Yea means supporting a framework that allows necessary activities in terrorist‑controlled areas while requiring security assessments to limit terrorism financing risks.

Voting Yea means supporting legally enabling humanitarian actors to deliver aid in difficult contexts while imposing conditions to reduce risk of benefiting terrorist groups.

Support new import restrictions to control ammunition and parts entry

Supports promoting both official languages in Canada’s diplomatic activities

Support increased capacity to provide international financial assistance under Bretton Woods instruments

Voting Yea means supporting regulatory frameworks that protect audience privacy while enabling the regulator to access data needed for enforcement, policy-making and competition oversight in the digital broadcasting sector.