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Senator Doug Black calls for creation of Economic Recovery Council in post-coronavirus world

Plus, interim Auditor General Sylvain Ricard to keep post for another half year, and CANSEC joins list of cancelled conventions.
Senator Doug Black, pictured on March 23, 2019, speaking at the Manning Conference in Ottawa, wants a group of 'eminent and highly qualified Canadians' to make up a council to address the post-COVID-19 economic recovery. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade
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BY NEIL MOSS
April 6, 2020
In order to ensure Canada is positioned to rebound from the fiscal damages brought on by the coronavirus pandemic, Alberta Senator Doug Black is calling for the creation of an Economic Recovery Council. Sen. Black, a member of the Canadian Senators Group, wrote a letter to Prime Minister ...

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