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Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says since the portal opened at 6 a.m. ET on Monday, about 10,000 companies have applied for the $73-billion wage subsidy program.

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[fashionforwardable]

Let's THANK our GARBAGE AND RECYCLING

[BradMcCallum]

Amazing - 4 mins into this and they've said exactly the same thing 25 different times. So much talk, so little value.

[achristian]

Just don't hike my taxes to pay for this. This is China's problem, send them the bill.

[sealdog]

Should put all politicians on the cerb benefit....see if they can survive on $1200.00 a month. Then watch how fast the economy will open up again.

[CanforCanadainsfirst]

sad workers are punished by this whats the point of working when somebody else is getting more money to stay home so many scammers of cerb its sad.

[weditigray]

God bless Canada and their People my wish is to be OK and Healthy love Canada

[kiro]

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why do we even have state sponsored propaganda

[sagarchhabra]

Prime minister said if you can't find a job, CERB is for you. I don't think that's correct as per the CERB guidelines.

[dafare]

All Parties had to Approve Government Spending.

[biloucanu]

Print more money, inflate more honey, what I mean is less honey for your money.

[pamoutar]

what about the people who is working for cash and still getting money from the government

[ashchase]

Over paying Canadians and expecting them to pay it back in a few months sounds like a CRA scam, do they want the refund back in goggle play cards? He said the cerb is to help pay for food, but not rent lol. You want Canadians to pay you back 2k over payment and 3 months back rent to Landlords, give me a break

[janeaton]

Please get rid of Rosie "fartin" Barton!!!! Shes the worst part of watching this!!!!

[Djvickers]

So all this money that they are giving out where is this coming from and how is it going to be paid back?

[nancymohass]

I feel exactly the same, thanks for writing this .about the double translation !

[KGBookkeeping]

We are still worried about PPE supplies?!?! Jeez they are behind the ball on the supply chain Currently, we can’t even get hand or dish soap let alone PPE in this Ontario city currently

[agapa]

Who isasking this premeditated questions to support premeditated plandemia?

[supercooled]

Wait, how do you go from "coast to coast ... to coast" ? You mean there are people travelling from Newfoundland to British Columbia and back?

[MsdebinBC]

Still don't have my ordinary gst from last month im gonna start charging interest to revenue canada!!

[d.c.]

Why are we not identifying which municipalities and hospitals have capacity to conduct a reduced rate of elective surgeries ? They are medically necessary, not optional procedures, and there are detrimental health consequences for putting them off. We have been in lockdown for weeks. We have data now that we did not have when we started. Schedule some elective surgeries and then screen the patients over the phone, and put precautions in place. Maybe that wont work in a location which is particularly braced hard for covid. But why are we using a 'one size fits all' approach right now across the country for something as important as elective surgeries? Check each hospital, find where there is capacity, and start doing electives... at a reduced rate if you must.. with precautions if you must.. Sitting on this too long has consequences. And our system already puts some people on months long waiting periods for procedures Before covid hit. Imagine the backlog which is ever growing and all the new health issues which will needed elective surgeries which are occurring right now.