Vote-Time Cheques Cost $2B

A cabinet order by Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland that extends temporary election-time relief cheques for the jobless will cost more than $2.1 billion, by official estimate. Cheques worth $300 a week were to run out just after Election Day: “I am so grateful to Canadians.”

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