iPolitics By Kelsey Johnson. Published on Apr 19, 2021 11:01am Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland speaks in the House of Commons in November 2020, she is set to table her first budget on April 19. (CPAC) Good day and welcome to the Sprout, where it’s Budget Day in Canada – so time to break out your favourite budget-friendly recipes. Looking for ideas? Canadian living has a few suggestions. For the foodies among us it’s also National Rice Ball Day. Now, here’s today’s agriculture news. The Lead A federal court judge has ruled Federal Fisheries Minister Bernadette Jordan acted against scientific advice and ignored her own commitments when she announced last December that all 19 fish farms in the Discovery Islands region would be phased out by June 2022.