Ken Boessenkool is a partner in Kool Topp & Guy Public Affairs.
The government of Canada has responded to the economic crisis facing Canadian families by proposing to spend $27-billion dollars, by making existing programs easier to access (employment insurance); designing a new program (a new Emergency Care Benefit); expanding existing programs for students, seniors and Indigenous peoples among others; and allowing Canadians to defer filing and paying taxes.
The government has decided on a rifle approach – targeted, mostly toward application-based programs and expansions of existing programs.The first danger of this approach is that it will take time to […]
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