Trudeau announces $252M emergency aid package for farmers, food processors hit by COVID-19

The Liberal government unveiled a multimillion-dollar aid package this morning aimed at helping farmers and food processors safely navigate the novel coronavirus pandemic. MPs also held a second meeting of the special committee on COVID-19 via video conferencing.

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[musicjeffyoung]

After letting five people cost the farmers 65 million a week during the train rail protests

[stevestrauss]

Imagine that 252M for our own framers yet he donates 850M to WHO. That makes perfect sense to me.

[mingwong]

Justin Castro is making his father proud.

[poniocean]

small farms need to start selling directly to the people then this will never happen again. if you accept a handout you become their subject.

[randykerr]

We were ranked 19th on the GDP before this pandemic The deficit we were in before this pandemic our kids grand kids wouldn't be able to recover now with this big spender still in power Spending close to a trillion dollars in a few months how are we ever going to recover And at the same time taking 6 billion dollars away from our economy

[danielcorbeil]

taxpayers footing the bill for government incompetence and over reaction to a flu.

[ekshteineyal]

This PM is doing a garage sale to Canada

[kyleinkster]

You are just going to underpay the farmers and then overcharge the consumer CROOK

[CanadianReacts]

How can this report be 2 hours long when PM Weasel only pops out for 25 minutes to spout platitudes & pat himself on the back before he gets a question that makes him wet his pants.

[adinfinitum]

WHERE IS THE RENT SUBSIDY FOR RENTERS WITH NO JOB, AND $2, 000 TAXED BENEFIT WHAT ARE FAMILIES SUPPOSE TO EAT ?

[bt]

All this guy does is announce spending money he doesn't have and didn't earn.

[pawel]

Make insurance companies lower costs when people are driving less. Make the carbon tax cost lower when most people contribute very little carbon emissions during this time.

[adinfinitum]

Fast food workers have no raise, and are working in dangerous conditions with greedy franchise owners pushing them.

[ryan]

Lol hows all this money gonna get paid we barely have any money as it is there is a 4.45 million dollars road work happening in my city once again where tf is this money coming from and how are we gonna make it back

[rezakhalili]

Why nobody talking about senior citizen with 1100.00 - 1200.00 wages pay by government ? How they live with that much money?

[duaynenantau]

time to buy some Canadian made pitchforks....if we still make them :(

[aquarius]

how this man can get up and look himself in the mirror is beyond me.. all the Canadians who he has left out of support and could easily include them with a change of 1 thing . its bad when Trump included a larger graphic of people with his stimulus then Trudeau did in CERB..

[ryanmarshall]

Is his answer to every problem is using taxpayers money?

[cecilliagillis]

Seniors of low incomes are not being looked after financially

[happymangovegan]

I’m an American I’m just here trying to learn a little french.