Tag Archives: Federal Politics
Government enacts stricter quarantine measures for returnees to Canada
OTTAWA - Starting at midnight, the federal government says all people returning to Canada will have to check in to a hotel or other designated site unless they have an acceptable self-quarantine plan....
Apr 14, 2020
Do as we say, not as we do? Trudeau, Scheer forced to defend family trips
OTTAWA - Both Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer are fighting off criticism that they're asking Canadians to do more to stop the spread of COVID-19 than they're willin...
Apr 14, 2020
Farmers, food processors to get federal funds to help foreign workers isolate
OTTAWA - Canadian farmers and food processors will get $50 million in federal funding to ensure temporary foreign workers comply with mandatory COVID-19 quarantine. Agriculture Minister Marie-Claude B...
Apr 13, 2020
Nearly 5.4 million receiving emergency federal aid as requests climb
OTTAWA - The federal government says nearly 5.4 million Canadians are now receiving emergency aid to replace incomes lost due to COVID-19. The figures this morning show 5.38 million applications have ...
Apr 13, 2020
Changes to emergency-relief program coming to expand eligibility, Trudeau says
OTTAWA - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says 240,000 people successfully applied for emergency relief amid the COVID-19 pandemic in the first few hours after the federal government opened the process t...
Apr 06, 2020
GST credit payments to low-income earners to arrive one month earlier
OTTAWA - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says the government will deliver more aid to low-income Canadians through the GST credit a month sooner than planned. The government initially announced the mone...
Apr 03, 2020
Scheer calls for more oversight of government's COVID-19 response
OTTAWA - Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer is calling for the Liberals to be more transparent about their response to the COVID-19 crisis. He wants the government to release all of the data on the spr...
Apr 03, 2020
Ontario's move puts pressure on feds to reveal national COVID-19 projections
OTTAWA - Canadians should brace for some grim numbers today as Ontario reveals its projections for how bad the COVID-19 pandemic could get in the country's most populous province and how long it could...
Apr 03, 2020
Trudeau calls first ministers meeting on COVID-19, promises better data soon
OTTAWA - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says he will soon be able to give Canadians a better sense of the impact COVID-19 is going to have on this country but he isn't able to do it yet.As countries li...
Apr 02, 2020
Local MP's calling on feds to scrap carbon tax in response to concerns of food security
Local MP's are calling on Ottawa to scrap its carbon tax in response to growing concerns of food security. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said the government will move forward with its plan to increase...
Apr 01, 2020 Gary Vidal Official Portrait / Portrait Officiel
Ottawa, ONTARIO, Canada on 24 February, 2020. (© HOC-CDC
Credit: Bernard Thibodeau, House of Commons Photo Services)