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1 | Organization | Submission Title / Instrument | Core Ask(s) - Summary | Impact Theme(s) | Policy Type | Funding Ask | Key Existing Vehicle(s) Referenced | Timeline | Notes - Convergence / Divergence |
2 | Black Opportunity Fund (BOF) | Pre-Budget Submission 2026 | (1) $25M federal match for the BOF Capital Housing Fund to expand Black homeownership; (2) $15M into the BOF Capital Growth Fund to finance and mentor Black-led businesses; (3) Stable multi-year implementation funding for Canada's Black Justice Strategy | Community finance targeting Black Canadians; Housing; Entrepreneurship/access to capital | New Program (matching capital funds) + Program continuation (Black Justice Strategy funding) | $40,000,000 | None named directly; comparable in structure to CFC's and 4C's fund-matching models | Short-term - matches an already-operating investment arm (BOF Capital) | A targeted, equity-deserving-community parallel to CFC/4C/Catalyst's CFI capital-fund asks and to the Indigenous finance cluster (NACCA, FNFA, Raven); Rec 3 (Black Justice Strategy) is a direct program-funding ask, not a finance mechanism, and is the weakest-fit element of this submission |
3 | Buy Social Canada / Social Enterprise Council of Canada | Written Submission for Pre-Budget Consultations | (1) Embed social enterprises in Buy Canadian procurement with clear targets; (2) National Social Value Procurement Readiness Initiative incl. access to working capital for bid development; (3) Scale procurement-driven access to finance via the Social Innovation and Social Finance Strategy - expand blended/patient capital, extend 'Seal the Deal' financing, pilot impact guarantees; (4) Require Community Employment Benefit Initiative/Community Benefit Agreements on federally funded infrastructure | Social enterprise sector; Social procurement; Blended/patient capital | Procurement policy + New Program (readiness initiative) + Finance mechanism (patient capital, impact guarantee piloting) | N/A | Buy Canadian Policy; Social Innovation and Social Finance Strategy; Social Finance Fund; Investment Readiness Program | Short-to-medium term - builds on 2021 Social Procurement Policy and Budget 2025 procurement commitments | Nearly identical social-procurement ask to CMC's Recommendation 5; explicitly proposes piloting 'impact guarantees,' directly complementing the sector-wide Impact Guarantee ask from Impact Guarantee, Catalyst, and SVX |
4 | Canada Climate Law Initiative (CCLI) | Submission to the Standing Committee on Finance's Pre-budget Consultations | (1) Amend CBCA Regulation SOR/2001-512 to require mandatory climate transition plans and Scope 1/2/3 emissions disclosure in financial statements; (2) Make the made-in-Canada sustainable investment taxonomy/guidelines mandatory; (3) Amend Pension Benefits Standards Regulations to require federally-regulated pension plans to adopt climate transition plans and assess portfolio climate resilience | Sustainable finance regulation; Climate-related financial disclosure; Pension fund mandates | Regulatory/Legislative (corporate disclosure regulation, mandatory taxonomy, pension fund regulation) | N/A | Made-in-Canada Sustainable Investment Guidelines (Finance Canada, 2025 next-steps announcement); Pension Benefits Standards Regulations | Medium-term - regulatory amendment process | Directly parallels SCP's call to expand fiduciary/regulatory frameworks for long-term ESG considerations, and Catalyst's/SVX's pension-fund disclosure and mandate asks - three independent submissions converging on pension-fund climate/impact mandates |
5 | Canada's Nature Advantage | Unlocking Canada's Nature Advantage - Five Building Blocks to Scale Private Investment | (1) $15M over two years to classify natural assets as capital and value them; (2) $15M over two years to modernize nature data infrastructure; (3) $100M initial seed capital for a blended finance mechanism to de-risk private investment in nature-positive working landscapes, anchored in Indigenous leadership; (4) $30M over two years to integrate nature-positive projects into carbon markets/national credit system; (5) Embed Indigenous leadership across all nature finance | Nature/climate finance; Blended finance for natural capital | New Program (blended finance mechanism, data infrastructure) + Market infrastructure (carbon/credit market integration) | $160,000,000 | A Force of Nature: Canada's Strategy to Protect Nature | Short-to-medium term (2-year horizons for most components; fund is an initial seed) | Forms a nature-finance sub-cluster with SVX's Nature Investment Agenda pillar and (adjacently) Nature United; the clearest blended-finance mechanism among the nature-themed submissions |
6 | Canadian Alliance for Transit-Connected Housing (CATCH) | Submission to the Pre-Budget Consultations 2026 | (a) Allocate $5M to establish a national CATCH Blended Capital Fund in 2026/27, (b) $200M in non-repayable seed capital plus up to $500M in low-interest repayable capital/guarantees over five years to scale the Fund to $2B, preserving and developing affordable housing near transit lines | Housing; Transit-oriented development; Blended finance | New Program (blended capital revolving fund) | $705,000,000 | Build Canada Homes (identifies a gap it does not currently fill) | Short-term launch (2026/27), multi-year scale-up | A blended-finance housing vehicle in the same family as Relèven's SPREIIT and SVX's housing-impact-funds pillar, but far smaller in scale and narrower in focus (transit-adjacent sites only); direct organizational link to CFC |
7 | Canadian Coalition for Community Capital (4C) | Mobilizing Retail Capital for Community Impact (May 2026) | (1) Make Community Capital Securities RRSP/TFSA/FHSA-eligible (Income Tax Act change, drop asset-backing requirement); (2) Allow 75% loss deductibility on Community Capital Securities (amend Income Tax Act, adapt Allowable Business Investment Loss regime); (3) Introduce a 30% blended Community Capital Tax Credit (20% non-refundable + 10% refundable); (4) Repeal Income Tax Act (s.136(2)(d)) to remove the restriction limiting the ability of cooperative corporations, including under the new employee ownership policy, to raise capital (investment shares) from non-members; (5) National CFI accreditation system + $250M Community Finance Fund over 5 years ($50M ops/TA + $200M first-loss/guarantee/low-interest capital) | Community/retail capital mobilization; Community Finance Institutions (CFIs); Co-operative capital | Legislative/Tax (4 ITA amendments) + New Program (accreditation system + fund) | $250,000,000 | Canada Strong Fund (framed as signal of retail-mobilization intent); references Nova Scotia CEDIF as precedent | Medium-term - requires ITA amendment cycle plus new accreditation infrastructure build-out | Near-identical $250M CFI Fund + 30% blended tax credit ask as Catalyst and SVX - strong 3-way convergence suggesting coordinated sector position; explicit cross-reference to Catalyst's submission for shared costing |
8 | Catalyst Community Finance | Pre-Budget Submission 2026 (May 2026) | Comprehensive Community Finance Strategy: (a) 30% blended Community Capital Tax Credit + RRSP eligibility for CFIs; (b) Federal participation in Impact Guarantee loan-guarantee pool ($50M guarantee unfunded + $5M first-loss); (c) National CFI accreditation + $250M Community Finance Fund ($50M ops + $200M capital); (d) Strike committee to study a Canadian Community Reinvestment Act (CCRA) framework to improve equitable access to credit and local investment; (e) Mandate disclosure and local investment target requirements for Crown corporations, pensions, banks, and foundations | Community finance ecosystem-building; Financial-sector accountability | New Program (fund, guarantee participation) + Tax + New Legislation (CCRA study) + Regulatory (Crown corp/pension mandates) | $362,000,000 | Impact Guarantee Pool; Social Finance Fund ecosystem; Canadian Small Business Funding Program (model) | Mixed - guarantee/fund components short-term; CCRA legislative study is long-term (committee + drafting) | Same $250M CFI Fund/tax credit ask as 4C and SVX (coordinated); CCRA idea echoed independently by SVX; overlaps with SCP's call for Crown-corp/CDFI-style institutional review; Crown-corp/pension mandate ask echoed by Vancity's OSFI/prudential asks |
9 | Co-operatives and Mutuals Canada (CMC) | Building for Longevity: A Co-operative Roadmap for a Resilient Canada | (1) Create a $100M Co-operative Investment Fund (repayable capital, 5yr tranches), will attract 2:1 leverage of private and community capital; (2) Amend Income Tax Act (Section.125) to expand Small Business Deduction access for co-ops; (3) Make $10M capital-gains relief for conversions to worker co-ops/EOTs permanent; (4) Prioritize co-op housing in Build Canada Homes + extend Federal Community Housing Initiative/Canada Community Housing Initiative rental assistance beyond 2028; (5) Establish Social procurement targets (social value targets, mission-driven criteria, etc.) for co-ops under Buy Canadian Policy framework; (6) National co-op data infrastructure/hub | Co-operative sector development; Ownership economy; Housing; Procurement; Data infrastructure | Mixed - New Program (fund, data hub) + Tax/Legislative (ITA amendments x2) + Program mandate change (BCH, FCHI) + Procurement policy | $100,000,000 | Build Canada Homes; Federal Community Housing Initiative; Buy Canadian Policy ($186M); Employee Ownership Trust regime | Mixed - tax fixes are short-term/technical; Fund and data hub are medium-term build-outs; FCHI extension is urgent (2028 mandate expiry looming) | Converges with SCP and 4C on ownership-transition/succession theme (worker buyouts, EOTs); converges with CFC/SVX/Raven on Build Canada Homes mandate expansion; SBD ask (Rec 2) is nearly duplicated verbatim by Vancity's new submission; procurement ask (Rec 5) closely echoed by Buy Social Canada's new submission |
10 | Community Foundations of Canada (CFC) | Written Submission for the Pre-Budget Consultations in Advance of the 2026 Federal Budget | (1) Establish a $250M CFC Community Partnerships Fund inside Build Communities Strong Fund to mobilize public, philanthropic, and private capital in support of locally driven conomic resilience; (2) Invest $30M expansion for Free to Play (child wellbeing/play spaces); (3) Comprehensive, collaborative DQ review in 2027; (4) Community Resilience Endowment Co-Investment Stream within a dedicate portion of the Canada Strong Fund (modelled on Canada Cultural Investment Fund) to build permanent local capital and sustained returns | Community finance/foundations; Child & family wellbeing; Charitable sector regulation | New Program (funds nested in existing vehicles) + Regulatory review (DQ) | $280,000,000 | Build Communities Strong Fund ($51B); Canada Strong Fund ($25B); Canada Cultural Investment Fund (model) | Short-term - both funds are designed for near-immediate deployment via existing 200+ foundation network | Converges with PFC on DQ review; converges with SVX/Catalyst on community finance framing but different delivery mechanism (existing CFC intermediary network vs. new CFI accreditation system); named member of CATCH alliance (see new addition) |
11 | Community Futures Network of Canada (CFNC) | Written Submission for the Pre-Budget Consultations | (1) Formally designate the Community Futures Program (CFP) as a preferred delivery mechanism for rural/remote federal programming; (2) Inflation-indexed core operational funding starting at $37.1M in 2026-27, rising to $40.2M by Year 5, protecting $2B in community loan capital currently at risk; (3) Modernize 20-year-old CFP lending Terms and Conditions (cost-neutral, 15 recommendations already submitted to Regional Development Agencies) | Rural community lending network; Community finance infrastructure | Program designation + Operational funding (inflation indexation) + Regulatory/terms modernization (cost-neutral) | $37,100,000 | Community Futures Program; Regional Relief and Recovery Fund (COVID-era precedent); Rural Development Action Plan; Comprehensive Expenditure Review | Short-term - addresses an immediate 16-year-old funding gap | Complements Shorefast's Community Futures lending-mandate-reform ask and NACCA/FNFA's Aboriginal Financial Institution lending-capacity asks - three submissions converging on strengthening the same rural/Indigenous lending intermediary layer |
12 | EntrepreNorth | Federal Budget Comments (Pre-Budget Submission 2026) | (1) $230M capital-access framework (grants, low-interest loans, and loan guarantees) for Indigenous SMEs across Yukon, the Northwest Territories, and Nunavut; (2) Within that, a $150M Workforce Housing and Entrepreneurship Stream over five years, co-administered through Build Canada Homes, CIRNAC, and Indigenous Services Canada, providing grants and low-interest loans for Northern Indigenous entrepreneurs to build or retrofit multi-purpose commercial-residential properties; (3) Loan guarantees for Northern supply chain and logistics financing, paired with milestone payments on barge shipment and seasonal tax deferrals | Indigenous finance / Northern and Arctic economic development; Workforce housing | New Program (capital-access framework, workforce housing stream) + Program design (targeted loan guarantees, tax deferral mechanism) | $230,000,000 | CanNor; Build Canada Homes (BCH); CIRNAC; Indigenous Services Canada (ISC) | Medium-term - a five-year program requiring design and rollout | Extends the Indigenous finance cluster (FNFA, NACCA, FNMHF, Yänonhchia') into the Arctic and Northern territories specifically - a regional/geographic focus none of those submissions cover; the Workforce Housing and Entrepreneurship Stream shares housing-as-economic-infrastructure logic with Raven's and CMC's Build Canada Homes asks, arguing Northern Indigenous SMEs cannot hire staff or win procurement contracts without dedicated commercial/workforce housing capital of their own; the targeted loan-guarantee ask parallels other sector submissions' guarantee asks for underserved groups, applied here to Northern supply-chain and logistics constraints. |
13 | First Nations Finance Authority (FNFA) | Submission for the 2026 Spring Economic Statement Consultations | (1) $200M annually (cash basis) for Infrastructure Monetization enabling First Nations to securitize projects; (2) $106M over five years for a surety & bonding backstop ($6M operating + $100M renewable backstop); (3) Legislative amendment to the First Nations Fiscal Management Act enabling FNFA to lend directly to special-purpose vehicles where a federal/provincial guarantee applies | Indigenous finance institution; Infrastructure monetization; Loan guarantees | New Program (monetization mechanism, bonding backstop) + Legislative amendment (FNFMA) | $306,000,000 | First Nations Fiscal Management Act (2006); cites FNFA's zero-default record since 2014 | Short-to-medium term - builds directly on FNFA's existing $4.75B debenture track record | A central hub of the Indigenous finance cluster - referenced and supported by NACCA, FNMHF, and Yänonhchia' Housing Finance, all also in this matrix |
14 | First Nations Market Housing Fund (FNMHF) | Submission for the Pre-Budget Consultations | Initiate a phased transfer of management of the existing First Nations Market Housing Fund - which runs a Credit Enhancement (loan guarantee backstop) facility and a Capacity Development program - to a reformed, First Nations-governed Trust or not-for-profit corporation under special-purpose federal legislation | Indigenous housing finance; Governance reform/self-determination | Legislative/institutional reform (governance transfer of an existing loan-guarantee facility) | N/A | First Nations Market Housing Fund (est. 2008); supported by AFN, FNFA, NACCA, Yänonhchia' | Medium-term - requires special-purpose federal legislation | Central node of the new Indigenous finance cluster - directly cross-supported by FNFA, NACCA, and Yänonhchia' Housing Finance, all also in this matrix |
15 | Impact Guarantee | Written Submission for Pre-Budget Consultations | (1) Continue/scale comprehensive social finance strategy (wholesale investment, tax incentives, loan guarantees, accreditation); (2) Endorse sector-led Impact Guarantee loan-guarantee pool as core SFF component; (3) Federal participation as guarantor alongside foundations/institutional investors; (4) $5M non-repayable capital to Impact Guarantee's first-loss fund | Community/social finance risk-sharing infrastructure | New Program (guarantee participation) - explicitly 'no new federal infrastructure or bureaucracy required' | $5,000,000 | Social Finance Fund; Canadian Small Business Financing Program (precedent); Canadian Indigenous Loan Guarantee Program (precedent) | Short-term / immediate (2026-2027 capitalization window) | Same Impact Guarantee vehicle referenced and endorsed by Catalyst and SVX - 3-way convergence; also explicitly referenced by Buy Social Canada's new submission as a pilot mechanism; distinguishes itself from Relèven's much larger, single-instrument guarantee ask by emphasizing modest scale and diversification |
16 | Low Carbon Cities Canada (LC3) | Pre-Budget Submission to FINA | One-time $298M capital investment to expand an endowment-based catalytic capital network of locally embedded climate action centres: $121M to strengthen/extend existing centres, $167M for three new centres (Winnipeg, Regina/Saskatoon, Southwestern Ontario), $10M for network collaboration | Climate finance; Catalytic capital / endowment-based intermediary network | New Program (capital injection into an existing endowment-based intermediary model) | $298,000,000 | CMHC Innovation Fund (cited precedent: $6M CMHC + $7M Vancity Credit Union generated $50M+ in financing) | Short-term ask (one-time capital investment) with decades-long endowment horizon | A climate-finance parallel to CFC's community-foundation endowment model and to Canada's Nature Advantage's blended-finance mechanism; shares governance/funding DNA with Vancity Community Foundation's proven CMHC co-investment model |
17 | Metcalf Foundation | Pre-Budget Submission 2026 | Invest $50M to establish an 'Arts & Social Finance' initiative for Canada's cultural sector - a financing vehicle pairing low-interest loans with investment-readiness support, co-developed with Rally Assets/Realize Capital Partners, designed to leverage a further $50M from philanthropic/private partners | Arts & culture sector finance; Social finance market-building | New Program (sector-specific blended finance vehicle) | $50,000,000 | Social Finance Fund (direct partnership with Realize Capital Partners, one of three SFF wholesalers) | Short-term - built on an existing SFF wholesaler's infrastructure | Extends the exact capital-mobilization logic of Realize Capital Partners (one of the original 15) into the cultural sector - a novel sectoral application of an already-endorsed model |
18 | National Aboriginal Capital Corporations Association (NACCA) | Submission for the Pre-Budget Consultations | (1) $25M over five years for loan-capital top-ups to Indigenous Financial Institutions (IFIs); (2) $5M over five years for a national Indigenous Business Centre of Excellence; (3) $25.5M over five years for Indigenous tourism financing; Additional: supports First Nations Procurement Authority ($36.6M), Yänonhchia' Housing Fund ($150M), and FNFA's bonding/surety backstop ($104M) | Indigenous financial institution network; Capital access for Indigenous entrepreneurs | New Program (loan capital, centre of excellence, sector financing) + Program endorsement (supports partner asks) | $55,500,000 | Major Projects Office ($126B in major projects); First Nations Fiscal Management Act (FNFA link) | Short-to-medium term | The coordinating hub of the Indigenous finance cluster - endorses and cross-references FNFA, Yänonhchia' Housing Finance, and the First Nations Procurement Authority, all in or adjacent to this matrix |
19 | National Circle for Indigenous Agriculture and Food (NCIAF) | Written Submission for the Pre-Budget Consultations | Establish a minimum $25M Indigenous Agriculture Development Fund over five years (2026-2031), delivered through NCIAF in partnership with federal departments and Indigenous financial institutions, to close a capital-access gap for Indigenous entrepreneurs in agriculture and food systems | Indigenous agriculture finance; Capital access for Indigenous entrepreneurs | New Program (sector-specific capital fund) | $25,000,000 | National Food Security Strategy; references the same $300B SME-succession transition wave cited by CMC and SCP | Short-to-medium term | A sector-specific (agriculture) parallel to Black Opportunity Fund and Raven - a targeted capital fund for an underserved population delivered via Indigenous financial institutions; echoes CMC's and SCP's succession-wave framing |
20 | Philanthropic Foundations Canada (PFC) | Written Submission for Pre-Budget Consultation (Apr 2026) | (1) Launch disbursement quota (DQ) public review by 2027 per Budget 2022 commitment, and conduct it as a public consultation to ensure transparency and broad sector input; (2) CRA guidance on Program-Related Investments (PRIs) + catalytic public capital to expand foundation co-investment vehicles; (3) Income Tax Act technical amendment to remove unnecessary regulatory barriers; (4) Designate Tax Court of Canada as primary CRA appeals venue | Charitable sector regulation; Philanthropic/foundation capital mobilization | Legislative/Regulatory (ITA amendment, appeals venue) + Regulatory review (DQ) + Program guidance (PRI) | N/A | Social Finance Fund (context); Budget 2022 DQ commitment | DQ review: medium-term (by 2027); ITA amendment & Tax Court designation: short-term (technical, ready now) | Converges with CFC on DQ review (CFC wants broader sector collaboration; PFC proposes specific formula-based methodology - divergence in prescriptiveness) |
21 | Raven Indigenous Outcomes Funds | 2026 Pre-Budget Submission to FINA | (1) $500M Outcomes Canada Fund for outcomes-based financing across housing/health/energy/climate/skills, with min. $100M reserved for Indigenous community projects; (2) Direct federal departments to adopt outcomes-finance approach; (3) Expand Build Canada Homes mandate to authorize retrofits (not just new-build) in Indigenous communities | Indigenous economic reconciliation; Outcomes-based/pay-for-success finance; Housing (retrofit) | New Program (fund) + Policy directive (outcomes-finance adoption across govt) + Program mandate change (BCH) | $500,000,000 | Build Canada Homes; SEU 2026 commitment to 'healthier, safer, stronger Indigenous communities' | Medium-term - new national fund requires design/build, though pilot projects (Manitoba/Saskatchewan/Alberta) already operating and provide proof points | Distinct outcomes-based financing mechanism (pay-for-success) not proposed elsewhere; converges with CMC/Relèven on BCH mandate expansion; now sits within a much larger Indigenous finance cluster alongside FNFA, NACCA, FNMHF, Yänonhchia', and NCIAF |
22 | Realize Capital Partners (RCP) | Pre-Budget Submission 2026 | Release the remaining $282.5M of the existing Social Finance Fund (SFF) commitment to current wholesalers, segmented into (a) institutional-scale capital mobilization ($100-150M SFF repayable + $10-15M nonrepayable + $200-350M private) and (b) community & inclusive finance ($90-130M SFF repayable + $30-40M nonrepayable + $20-60M private), each with a market-building non-repayable component | Social Finance Fund continuation; Institutional & community capital mobilization | Program Continuation/Expansion (existing SFF tranche release, no new legislation or institution) | $282,500,000 | Social Finance Fund (direct); Venture Capital Catalyst Initiative / Growth VCCI (precedent for phased tranches) | Short-term - ask is for 2027 release of an already-committed amount | Distinguishes 'institutional-scale' vs 'community/inclusive' capital tracks; Metcalf Foundation's new Arts & Social Finance proposal was co-developed with Realize/Rally Assets, extending the SFF model to a new sector |
23 | Relèven (SPREIIT) | Pre-Budget Submission - Social Purpose Real Estate Impact Investing Trust | (1) Federal guarantee on a $10B SPREIIT bond issuance, unfunded (four tranches); (2) Formally name SPREIIT as a national social finance instrument in Budget 2026; (3) Recognize social-purpose real estate as critical national infrastructure to preserve community ownership, accelerate housing supply, and fund heritage retrofits | Social-purpose real estate; Housing preservation; Heritage/community infrastructure | New Program/Instrument (federal guarantee - contingent liability) + Formal designation | N/A | Build Canada Homes; CMHC; Prime Minister's '$1 trillion investment agenda'; cites Canada Housing Trust/Canada Mortgage Bonds NPO structure as governance precedent | Short-term ask (wants Budget 2026 designation to begin immediately) but 30-year repayment/buyback horizon | Shares Indigenous-pipeline framing with Raven; scale sets it apart from every other guarantee-style ask; Vancity Community Foundation and CATCH now offer smaller-scale, more proven versions of the same 'patient capital via intermediary' logic for housing |
24 | Shorefast | Place as an Economic Pillar - Pre-Budget Submission 2026 | Ten-part place-based capital agenda: (1) $150M place-based capacity platform (50% private/philanthropic match); (2) Community Futures lending-mandate/risk-sharing reform; (3) $300M Regional Air Connectivity Initiative (within Airports Capital Assistance Program) for 25-30 communities (including at 8 indigenous communities and 4 northern); (4) Make economic development core to the mandate of the Minister of Transport and Canadian Transportation Agency; (5) $250M community economic data/AI readiness ($150M for community-scale eocnomic indicators and $100M for AI governance); (6) $1.85B expansion of Canada Small Business Financing Program loan-loss reserves (incl. Aboriginal Financial Institution lending); (7) $150M to strengthen Community Futures/AFI credit-adjudication capacity; (8) Removal of Canada Infrastructure Bank's $50M minimum investment threshold; (9) $75M Community of Practice for place-based giving (via Community Foundations of Canada); (10) $925M in match-funding within Build Communities Strong Fund modelled on the UK's Pride in Place programme | Place-based community economic development; Community finance infrastructure | Mixed - New programs + Program mandate reform (Community Futures) + Loan-loss reserve expansion + Match-funding mechanism | $3,700,000,000 | Build Communities Strong Fund; Canada Small Business Financing Program; Canada Infrastructure Bank; Community Futures Program; Community Foundations of Canada; Airports Capital Assistance Program | Mixed, mostly short-to-medium term (3-year funding horizons across most items) | Touches nearly every other cluster in the matrix: overlaps with Community Futures Network of Canada (lending mandate reform), NACCA/FNFA (AFI lending capacity), and CFC (place-based giving practice, administered by CFC) - effectively a synthesis submission |
25 | Social Capital Partners (SCP) | Canada Needs to Strengthen the Ownership Agenda | (1) Establish business succession as a national priority with financing vehicles for employee/co-op/community buyouts; (2) Commission review of alternative financing infrastructure and establish a formal Canadian CDFI designation; (3) Ensure the new sovereign wealth fund's mandate supports domestic ownership/industrial strategy, incl. patient capital for community/employee acquisitions; (4) Expand fiduciary/regulatory frameworks to explicitly permit long-term social/environmental/resilience considerations; host a Canada Investment Summit for mission-driven investors | Ownership economy; Alternative financing infrastructure; Sovereign wealth fund mandate | Advisory/Directional (mandate-setting, regulatory review) + one new convening ask (Investment Summit) | N/A | Canada's new sovereign wealth fund (Canada Strong Fund); EOT tax exemption (welcomed as already delivered); Buy Canadian; Canadian Small Business Financing Program (BDC transition) | Medium-to-long term - mandate design and regulatory review processes | Complements CMC on succession/ownership-transition financing; echoes Catalyst's CDFI-style institutional ask; Community Futures Network of Canada and Vancity both now offer concrete, existing-institution versions of the 'alternative financing infrastructure' SCP calls for reviewing |
26 | Social Innovation Canada | Pre-Budget Submission | (1) Establish a dedicated Social Innovation stream within the existing federal innovation budget to develop, scale and coordinate solutions to social/environmental/economic challenges; (2) Expand blended finance vehicles and place-based investment vehicles to mobilize private and philanthropic capital alongside public investment | Social innovation ecosystem; Blended finance / market infrastructure | New Program (dedicated innovation stream) + Market infrastructure (blended finance expansion) | N/A | References Canada's ~130 siloed innovation programs as the problem to be coordinated | Medium-term - system-level, cross-departmental proposal | A general/cross-cutting version of nearly every other submission's specific fund or guarantee ask; complements Shorefast's similarly broad place-based capital agenda |
27 | Spring Activator | Pre-Budget Submission 2026 | (1) $25-50M for investor education, activation and ecosystem-development programming (pre-seed/angel stage); (2) Re-introduce/expand the Women Entrepreneurship Strategy (WES) to support women and non-binary founders raising capital, esp. gender-lens investing | Early-stage impact-investing ecosystem; Gender-lens investing/entrepreneurship | Program Funding (new/expanded programming through existing delivery organizations) | $50,000,000 | Women Entrepreneurship Strategy (WES, ~$7B initiative); Canadian Startup Community Alliance (CSCA) coalition ask (endorsed, not duplicated) | Short-term - funding could flow through existing delivery organizations immediately | Converges independently with SVX on WES renewal/gender-lens investing - two unrelated submissions landing on the same ask is a strong signal for prioritization |
28 | SVX | Written Submission for Pre-Budget Consultations (May 2026) | Five-part agenda: (1) National Community Finance Strategy (tax credit, RRSP eligibility, Impact Guarantee participation, CFI accreditation, $250M fund, CCRA study, disclosure mandates); (2) Women's Economic Growth Initiative (5-yr, building on WES); (3) Nature Investment Agenda (Natural Climate Solutions financing, Indigenous-led stewardship, ecosystem-service markets); (4) Impact Blueprint for Canada's global agenda (~$550M catalytic facility for diaspora bonds/blended finance in Latin America, Africa, SE Asia); (5) Direct Build Canada Homes/CMHC/Canada Rental Protection Fund toward housing-focused impact funds | Cross-cutting: Community finance; Gender-lens investing; Nature/climate finance; International development finance; Housing | Mixed - New Programs (tax credit, funds) + Program design (WES renewal, global facility) + Regulatory (CCRA study, disclosure) + Market infrastructure (data/measurement standards) | $800,000,000 | Build Canada Homes; Canada Rental Protection Fund ($470M non-repayable + $1B loans); Women Entrepreneurship Strategy; Impact Guarantee Pool; FinDev Canada/Global Affairs Canada | Mixed across 5 pillars - community finance and housing measures are short-term/near-ready; nature agenda and global blueprint are medium-to-long-term market-building | Sole submission proposing a Women's Economic Growth Initiative alongside Spring (independent convergence); Nature Investment Agenda pillar now sits alongside two new nature-finance submissions (Canada's Nature Advantage, Nature United) forming a distinct nature-finance sub-cluster |
29 | Vancity (credit union) | Vancity 2026 Pre-Budget Submission | 17 recommendations across four themes: (1) Housing (national co-op housing finance platform pooling capital/guarantees; (2) Require Build Canada Comes applicants to building high-quality climate ready homes (3) OSFI risk-sensitive capital treatment for community housing; (4) CMHC insurance-gap closure for prefab housing with loan guarantees; (5) Indigenous housing capital access; (6) tax framework for land-trust property donations); (7,8) Community banking & system reform (modernized capital/liquidity frameworks for smaller institutions; proportionality in OSFI's Fast Track Framework); (9,10,11,12) Co-operatives (ITA amendment for co-op Small Business Deduction access; Federal Co-operatives Secretariat; CRA co-op guidance; Federal (13,14,15,16,17) Co-operative Investment Plan modelled on Quebec's Régime d'investissement coopératif); Climate action (align Clean Economy ITCs to community-based proponents) | Community/co-operative finance; Financial-sector regulation; Housing | Mixed - New Program (housing finance platform) + Regulatory reform (OSFI, CRA) + Tax/Legislative (ITA SBD amendment, co-op investment plan) + Institutional (Co-operatives Secretariat) | N/A | Build Canada Homes; OSFI; CMHC; Ecological Gifts Program (model for land-trust tax treatment); Quebec's Régime d'investissement coopératif (model); Clean Economy Investment Tax Credits | Mixed - ITA amendment and CRA guidance are short-term/technical; OSFI capital-framework reform is medium-term | Near-duplicate of CMC's SBD ask (co-op tax parity); its Federal Co-operative Investment Plan parallels 4C/Catalyst's registered-account and tax-credit logic; its OSFI/prudential asks parallel SCP's alternative-financing-infrastructure review call - the single most convergence-heavy new addition |
30 | Vancity Community Foundation | Leveraging Private Capital to Build Canada's Housing Future | (1) $200M National Community Housing Accelerator Fund for pre-development financing of community-owned affordable housing, building on the Vancity Affordable Community Housing Program; (2) Federal funding to scale proven rent-bank models nationally (building on BC Rent Bank) | Housing finance; Community-foundation intermediary; Blended/patient capital | New Program (housing accelerator fund) + Program scaling (rent banks) | $200,000,000 | CMHC Innovation Fund; Build Canada Homes | Short-term - builds on an already-operating model (13,000 homes delivered since 2011) | A smaller, already-proven version of the same 'patient capital via community-foundation intermediary' logic as CFC's endowment ask and Relèven's SPREIIT, at a fraction of the latter's scale and risk |
31 | Yänonhchia' Housing Finance | Submission for the 2026 Pre-Budget Consultations | (1) $150M over five years to establish the Yänonhchia' Housing Finance Capital Facility enabling on-reserve homeownership lending through Indigenous Financial Institutions; (2) $350M in years 5-10 to scale to full national coverage and build a self-sustaining $1B loan portfolio; (3) $12.9M over five years in operational funding for Network Central and participating IFIs | Indigenous housing finance; On-reserve homeownership lending | New Program (capital facility, phased national scale-up) | $512,900,000 | First Nations Market Housing Fund, NACCA, FNFA, Assembly of First Nations, Aboriginal Savings Corporation of Canada (all named supporters) | Short-term launch (5 years) scaling to medium-term national coverage (years 5-10) | Explicitly cross-supported by NACCA, FNFA, FNMHF, and AFN - the most tightly coordinated single proposal within the Indigenous finance cluster |
32 | Public Banking Project, McMaster University | Policy Brief: Local, Efficient, Public - A New Municipal Development Bank for Canada? (Feb 2026) | Exploratory research brief (not a numbered recommendation list) examining whether Canada should establish a national Municipal Development Bank or system of banks, modeled on BC's Municipal Finance Authority or Germany's Sparkassen system; raises 5 open topics for consideration (ownership, financial sustainability, governance, climate/justice/prosperity, technical assistance/structure) rather than a specific budget ask | Municipal/subnational infrastructure finance; Public banking | Institutional/Legislative (conceptual - would require new Crown institution or system of banks if pursued) | N/A | Municipal Finance Authority of BC (existing model cited) | Long-term - proposes further consultation before any concrete design, let alone implementation | Distinct genre (academic policy brief vs. advocacy submission with recommendations); no specific 2026 budget ask; only proposal not authored by a sector advocacy organization |
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