A federal proposal that would allow prosecutors to suspend criminal charges against companies in certain cases of corporate wrongdoing has been quietly included in the Trudeau government's 582-page budget legislation.

The Liberal government has given Status of Women Canada a major role to play in its feminist agenda and, now that the federal agency is set to grow into a full-size department, it could also be changing its name.

“It was your Liberals that pressed the start button and have caused immeasurable pain by ignoring the problems,” wrote Tony Clement on Twitter, defending his role in handling the federal government's dysfunctional Phoenix pay system.

Parents of young children and a national Muslim group are welcoming a federal budget commitment to address fairness and privacy concerns with Canada's no-fly list.

Here's what federal politicians, labour groups, healthcare workers and other stakeholders had to say about the Trudeau government's new budget, entitled: Equality + Growth: A Strong Middle Class

All of the new spending will result in an annual deficit of $18.1 billion for 2018/2019, and ongoing deficits that would continue over the next few years, going down to $12.3 billion by 2022/2023. These totals are lower than deficits that were projected by the Trudeau government in last year's budget.

Tuesday’s budget included some highly-anticipated support for local journalism, addressing closures of local newspapers and the massive job cuts that have ripped through newsrooms across the country.

The new investments — poured into a variety of healthcare, housing, self-governance, employment, family and child services programs — would bring Ottawa’s total investments for Indigenous programs and services to more than $16.8 billion over seven years.

The proposal comes after cyber attackers broke into a Statistics Canada server last year, forcing the data agency and Canada's tax agency offline.

​The Trudeau government shifted environmental gears Tuesday, putting a greater emphasis on conservation efforts, but shying away from major new financial commitments for decarbonization and climate change initiatives.

Western Canadian oil producers won’t need all of the new pipelines proposed by energy giants such as Kinder Morgan, Enbridge and TransCanada — at least not for a decade — according to oilpatch estimates featured in Tuesday’s federal budget.

Finance Minister Bill Morneau’s new federal budget doesn’t offer any new funding to support a new human rights watchdog that was recently announced to keep an eye on Canadian companies that operate abroad.

If approved, the investment of $100 million would be rolled out over 10 years in a financial plan that Finance Minister Bill Morneau credits as taking an “historic and meaningful step” toward closing the gender gap in Canada.

The federal government is going to scrap a “flawed” and “unacceptable” pay system that struggled to deliver pay to public servants, despite a price tag that will likely exceed $1 billion, Finance Minister Bill Morneau announced in his new budget tabled Tuesday in Parliament.