Budget highlights by the numbers:
$1.4 billion — Projected budget surplus in 2015-16. Up to $6,660 — Amount the government says a typical two-earner family can save this year because of tax cuts and increased benefits. $10,000 — The new annual contribution limit for a tax-free savings account, up from $5,500. 6 months — Amount of time people caring for gravely ill family members will now be able to qualify for employment insurance benefits. Previously it was six weeks. $27 billion — Projected increase in health care transfers to the provinces over the next five years. $750 million — Amount to be invested over two years, beginning in 2017-18, in a new public transit fund. The investment increases to $1 billion a year after that. $292.6 million — Amount to be invested over five years in intelligence and law enforcement agencies for counter-terrorism. $210 million — Amount to be spent over four years, starting this fiscal year, to support activities and events to celebrate Canada’s 150th anniversary in 2017. $1.3 billion — Amount over six years, beginning in 2017-18, the government will provide to the Canada Foundation for Innovation for research infrastructure at universities, colleges and research hospitals. $11.8 billion — Promised boost to National Defence spending over 10 years. Up to $360.3 million — For the extended and expanded mission against Islamic State, and $7.1 million for the announced military training mission in Ukraine. $200 million — Amount for five years, starting this fiscal year, to improve First Nations education. $60.4 million — Amount to be spent over three years, starting this year, to support security on Parliament Hill. $58 million — Over five years, to better protect computer networks and critical infrastructure against cyberattacks, and $36.4 million over five years to address cybersecurity threats. 2 percentage points — Reduction in small business tax rate — from 11 per cent to nine per cent — by 2019. $12.5 million — Amount to be spent over five years, beginning this year, to double the budget of the Security Intelligence Review Committee, which oversees Canada’s spy agency.