From page A1 When Parliament returns to work in the coming weeks, one of the Liberal government’s first orders of business will be a fall economic statement. Expectations include such big-ticket items as national childcare, likely bankrolled by a proposed three-per-cent tax on financial institutions and insurance companies. But the biggest question for the new government may be how long it intends to maintain pandemic-support payments, and whether it will go even further, toward a more permanent version of annual income support — a guaranteed basic income, as the NDP has been advocating.
For 18 months now, unemployed Canadians have […]
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