Liberals Accept Conservative Budget Amendments on ‘Regulatory Sandboxes’

Liberals Accept Conservative Budget Amendments on ‘Regulatory Sandboxes’
Gould speaks with media as she makes her way to a caucus meeting in Ottawa, on March 10, 2025. The Canadian Press/Adrian Wyld
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The federal Liberals accepted a Conservative proposal Monday to put guardrails around proposed new cabinet powers as they debated the government’s omnibus budget bill.

The Liberal government’s budget implementation legislation, Bill C-15, proposes to give federal ministers the ability to temporarily exempt individuals or corporations from some non-criminal federal laws—an approach the government refers to as “regulatory sandboxes.”