The Manitoba government’s Budget 2025 meets the challenge of the current historic moment with the largest capital investment in Manitoba’s history to grow the economy, protect jobs and continue the government’s commitments to rebuild health care and lower costs for Manitobans.
“This budget comes at a critical time in Manitoba’s history and it rises to the occasion with a historic investment in capital projects,” said Finance Minister Adrien Sala. “We didn’t start this trade war but we are not backing down. We are Building One Manitoba.”
Budget 2025 invests a record $3.7 billion in capital projects, noted Sala, which includes new schools, emergency rooms (ERs) and personal care homes, and critical infrastructure to keep Manitoba’s economy moving.
The minister noted this budget will grow Manitoba’s economy and add nearly 18,000 new jobs with investments in Phase 2 of the North End Water Pollution Control Centre, Port of Churchill and Hudson Bay Rail Line, upgrades to Manitoba Hydro infrastructure, twinning the east Trans-Canada Highway and beginning work on the Lake St. Martin and Lake Manitoba outlet channels and Wasagamack Airport.
A strong economy needs a strong health-care system, said Sala, and the budget continues to make progress on improving access to health care for Manitobans. Budget 2025 commits to putting shovels in the ground this year on the new emergency room and Mature Women’s Centre at Victoria Hospital, the new ER in Eriksdale and a new Health-Care Centre of Excellence in downtown Winnipeg. The budget also includes renovations at the Health Sciences Centre Children’s Hospital ER to provide better care and comfort to families with sick kids, noted the minister.
The budget aims to lower costs for families and businesses with an increase to the Homeowners Affordability Tax Credit, more access to free birth control, a reduction in payroll taxes, an extension of $10-a-day child care into the summer, a new Business Security Rebate Program and making provincial park entry free for an entire year, said Sala.
Budget 2025 includes a contingency with hundreds of millions of dollars in support to help businesses pivot to new markets, help workers skill up and find good jobs and support Manitoba’s canola farmers and pork producers facing tariff threats from the U.S. and China, noted the finance minister.
