Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will be under pressure Friday to detail how the federal government will help provinces massively scale up testing for COVID-19 as the country slowly begins to come back to life.
OTTAWA -- Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will be under pressure today to detail how the federal government will help provinces massively scale up testing for COVID-19 as the country slowly begins to come back to life.
Ontario has fallen far short of its goal of 16,000 tests per day, with the province completing 10,506 tests on Tuesday. Yet there was little precise information following the conference call about what the federal government is prepared to do, beyond what it is already doing.
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