Affordability & Housing
Childcare
Liberal's promises
Tax measures and rebates
Liberal's promise
"This middle-class tax cut will save two-income families up to $825 a year, by reducing the marginal tax rate on the lowest tax bracket by 1 percentage point. More than 22 million Canadians will benefit directly from this tax cut, and middle- and low-income Canadians will benefit the most." — liberal.ca, retrieved 2025-04-14
Jobs, Businesses, & Labour
Manufacturing
Liberal's promises
"Create a $2 billion Strategic Response Fund to boost our auto sector’s competitiveness, protect manufacturing jobs, support workers to upskill their expertise in the industry, and build a fortified Canadian supply chain – from raw materials to finished vehicles." — liberal.ca, retrieved 2025-04-14
"Build an “All-in-Canada” network for auto manufacturing component parts. With this network, we will work with industry to build more car parts in Canada, limit those parts crossing the border during production, and attract investment into our own industry." — liberal.ca, retrieved 2025-04-14
Sovereignty, Foreign Relations, & the United States
National defence
Liberal's promises
"Expand the capabilities of the Navy with new submarines and additional heavy icebreakers to defend the North." — liberal.ca, retrieved 2025-04-14
"Creating a first-in-class drone capability that will build and deploy aquatic and airborne uncrewed vehicles to defend our arctic, our undersea infrastructure, our borders, and our allies. This new capability will be matched with an industrial strategy that builds and perfects these technologies so that Canadian companies benefit from Canadian procurements." — liberal.ca, retrieved 2025-04-14
"We will expand the reach and abilities of the Canadian Coast Guard and integrate them into our NATO defence capabilities. Our Coast Guard carries out important work, but we need to update their mission to face changing realities to protect our sovereignty and counter criminal activity, like the trafficking of illicit drugs. That’s why we will give the Canadian Coast Guard a new mandate—and the right equipment—to conduct maritime surveillance operations to secure our coasts." — liberal.ca, retrieved 2025-04-14
"We will modernize our procurement legislation to ensure our Forces can buy the equipment that they need, when they need it—which is now. We can also swiftly surpass our existing defence spending targets and bolster our capabilities by investing in dual purpose infrastructure—whether housing, cybersecurity, or satellite technology—that delivers immediate benefits for both our Forces and the public." — liberal.ca, retrieved 2025-04-14
"We will end the chronic lapsing of defence spending, through the creation of a defence capital account that ensures that even when the timing of an investment changes, every dollar assigned to Canada’s defence will remain for that purpose." — liberal.ca, retrieved 2025-04-14
Biography
Buckley Belanger was born in Ile a la Crosse, Saskatchewan. At a very young age, his mother passed away, and his stepmother, Molly, resumed care of him and his brothers and sisters.
After graduating high school in 1978, Buckley established a local radio and TV station in his hometown. Buckley then went to work in La Ronge for the Missinippi Broadcasting Corporation (MBC) as a broadcaster and helped set up local radio and TV stations in several communities, including Cumberland House, La Loche, Beauval, and others.
Buckley returned home and was elected mayor of Ile a la Crosse at the age of 28, where he served three terms. In 1995, Buckley was elected as a Member of the Legislative Assembly (MLA), representing our community in the Legislature until 2021. He has served in the Cabinet as Minister of Environment and Resource Management and Associate Minister of Intergovernmental and Aboriginal Affairs.
Buckley is now working hard to earn your trust as the Liberal candidate for Desnethé—Missinippi—Churchill River, in order to bring the voice of our Northern community to Ottawa.
Buckley and his wife, Beckie, have three daughters, Michelle, Kellie, and Taylor. Their family is also blessed with six grandchildren, Meika, Brody, Nixon, Mila, Cooper, and Leo. Buckley and his wife continue to reside in Ile a la Crosse.
In the meantime, you can learn more about them on their website.
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