Prime Minister Justin Trudeau used his 65th morning press conference since the COVID-19 pandemic was declared in mid-March to implore Canadian businesses to re-hire their employees, and encouraged young people to look into the 45,000 job postings available to those looking for work this summer.
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He then cited some of the massive social and financial assistance programs that have been launched over the last two months and are sending billions of dollars out the door.Questions still remain about whether the financial assistance programs—including $9 billion in student financial assistance programs and coming commercial rent relief plan—have been enough to keep businesses and industries afloat.
So far, 284,038 applications have been accepted for the subsidy program, totaling $7.9 billion in funding. Now, with the first wave of the novel coronavirus appearing to be largely on the decline, the focus appears to be beginning to shift from emergency triage to conversations about cracks the pandemic has exposed in various systems and institutions.
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