WILPF-Canada partnered with the Canadian Voice of Women for Peace on a joint submission to the Standing Committee on Finance on the pre-budget federal consultations on the 2026 budget.
Read our submission here.
We made the following recommendations for Budget 2026:
* Recommendation 1: That the government apply a Gender-Based Analysis+ (GBA) to rising military spending and the new defence initiatives and publicly report on this analysis
* Recommendation 2: That the government not meet the NATO 5% GDP target and reduce military spending and re-allocate to deal with the poverty and climate crises
* Recommendation 3: That the government release a public report on the opportunity costs and trade-offs for Canadian women, Indigenous peoples, youth and the environment and climate on rising military spending
* Recommendation 4: That the government implement the important United Nations’ report that was released last September “The Security We Need: Rebalancing Military Spending for a Sustainable and Peaceful Future.”
