Free healthcare too, Canada pension, old age security on top of a corporate pension. Students are getting money and actual small businesses. We've even got a sensible plan to open with testing and maybe even effective treatments too. US death rate is 2,37 times per capita higher than Canada, responsible government counts. Do better in November, if America goes down we will follow since you are our biggest trading partner.
Within hours of the major wage subsidy program launching Monday morning, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says approximately 10,000 businesses had already applied, and the government is expecting hundreds of thousands more as companies across the country await the go-ahead to gradually reopen.
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Awaiting go-ahead to gradually reopen, thousands of businesses apply for wage subsidy: PM
OTTAWA -- Within hours of the major wage subsidy program launching Monday morning, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says approximately 10,000 businesses had already applied, and the government is expecting hundreds of thousands more as companies across the country await the go-ahead to gradually reopen.
“That gives you a sense of just how many people this program will help. Right across the country, it’s going to keep businesses and workers connected. And that gives people certainty that they’ll have a job now, and in the months to come, to support themselves and their family,” Trudeau said, as he continued to emphasize that while talks of getting the economy back up and running are happening, the timing remains unknown and dependent on the COVID-19 curve flattening.
Touting the newly opened and long-anticipated program during his daily COVID-19 address, Trudeau said the first payments to cover of 75 per cent of the first $58,700 of an employee’s salary will arrive to businesses by May 7, if they’ve signed up for direct deposit.
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