Open Letter to the Minister of Finance by Alicia Richins

A Canadian Community Alternative Federal Budget

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in response to the canadian federal government’s budget 2026:

we convened community to debrief and reflect on the budget, before practising our collective imagination to dream up something different.

Click the image to read our “Open Letter to the Minister of Finance,” and scroll to peruse the budget itself.

This speculative budget was developed through facilitated participatory workshops using a fixed allocation framework and a federal jurisdiction lens. It reflects participant priorities translated into federally plausible programs.