Everyone Could Get Cheques

The Department of Employment yesterday budgeted up to $4 million to pay lockdown benefits to the equivalent of 100 percent of tax filers in a remote Québec hamlet. The department would not comment on discretionary cash awards approved by cabinet order: “The supports we have for people are there to be used.”

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