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Liberals pledge $100B to heal the pandemic economy
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On Monday, Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland announced the Liberal government will spend up to $100 billion to support the post-pandemic economy. The priority is, as Freeland says, to do “whatever it takes” to help Canadians, despite the record-high $381 billion deficit.
CBC senior parliamentary reporter David Cochrane breaks down the details of the economic update, and tells us what critics had to say about it.