Archived – Beyond the Printed Word

The tax savings calculator: These Finance Canada pages will on Budget Day feature a calculator that provides information on the approximate impact the tax savings program has on you.

The Multi-media presentation: These pages will feature the full Budget story as told through images, animation, charts and tables.

If you want to see all the multimedia products, including the slide show presentation with explanatory voice-over, download the Macromedia Shockwave player, which includes the Flash plug-in you need for other multimedia such as the calculator. If you want to see only the calculator, download only the Flash plug-in.

Follow the links below to access the required free player:

	Shockwave - animation player.
	Flash - animation player.

Audio-visual clips: These Finance Canada pages will also feature short videos of Finance Minister Paul Martin taking viewers through the Budget’s key features.

Viewing these clips requires that you have downloaded and installed a media player. 

Information on downloading and installing the players is available here:

	RealPlayer - audio/video player.
	Windows Media Player - audio/video player.

You can use Flash, Shockwave or RealPlayer to see previous years' budget material from the Budget Info page. (Select a year and then select the link to the multimedia presentations).