Infiltrate The System Network’s 2025 Federal Budget Submission

August 28, 2025

Author

Anna Huschka

My name is Anna (she/her), and I am a white settler located on the lands of the Williams Treaty First Nations – the Alderville First Nations, Beausoleil First Nation, Chippewas of Georgina Island, Chippewas of Rama, Curve Lake First Nation, Hiawatha First Nation, and Mississaugas of Scugog Island. I do not intend to speak on behalf of any communities I am not a part of. I hope to leverage my position of privilege as a cisgender white woman to amplify the efforts and voices of those doing so much work towards climate justice in their communities across the country. I want to be a part of challenging the Euro-settler-centric and Western values that currently shape climate policies, to counteract colonial and systemic barriers, ensuring that the concerns, exposures, and knowledges of diverse communities are adequately incorporated into environmental policies and projects. As a part of the Shake Up Your Community project, I hope to help support climate work at all scales and showcase the community-based efforts that have developed out of necessity of addressing the issues of climate justice. As a biology major and politics minor, my passion for environmental politics developed from a sense of urgency and anger about the lack of action by decision-makers to adequately address the climate crisis. I aim to hold decision-makers accountable to climate commitments as well as diversify what is currently Canada’s political climate by identifying gaps in policies and projects by responding to calls for public feedback. Through the Righting History Project, particularly Practicing Rest, Recovery, Resistance: An Interactive Dreaming Journal, I hope to help youth see that their existence, and any contributions they make to the climate movement as a whole, regardless the scale, are beautiful acts of resistance to our colonial, capitalistic society.

Editor

Manvi Bhalla

Youth climate justice groups are encouraging the federal government to ensure that the 2025 budget funds initiatives aligned with advancing climate justice.

The Infiltrate the System (ITS) Network is a newly launched pan-Canadian network creating spaces for youth climate justice organizations to strategize and collaborate on policy actions that help advance climate justice across Canada. 14 out of 17 member organizations from the ITS Network collaborated to craft 38 evidence-informed recommendations for the federal government’s 2025 budget. 

    Infiltrate the System Network’s Recommendations for Budget 2025

    Authors: Anna Huschka (she/her), Shake Up The Establishment, Martha Capener (she/her), Climate Justice Climatique UOttawa, Victoria Bao Wang (any), Uptown Climate Conversations and Sayemin Naheen (she/they) , Solastalgia

    Editors: Mei-Ling Patterson (she/her), Shake Up The Establishment, Manvi Bhalla (she/her), Shake Up The Establishment, Shir Gruber (she/her), Sustainable Youth Canada, Sophia Lindfield (she/her), Finance Engage Sustain, Tayla Kelly (she/her), Community Climate Council, Maria Karanicolas (she/her), Climate Hope Lab, David R. Boyd, Professor, IRES, University of British Columbia, Dr. Maria Vamvalis (she/her) 

    Endorsing Organizations: Shake Up The Establishment, The Starfish Canada, The Youth Harbour, Climate Hope Lab, Sustainable Youth Canada, Community Climate Council, Women’s Healthy Environments Network, Climate Justice Climatique UOttawa, Ritmos Climáticos, Solastalgia, Human Nature Projects Canada, Uptown Climate Conversations, Wilderness Committee and sword fern collective.

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