Senate oversight committees aim to start meeting this week

The Senate’s Finance and Social Affairs committees are preparing to start their studies of the government’s COVID-19 relief effort.

Independent Senator Donna Dasko says she wants the Senate Social Affairs Committee to take a look at some of the data collected by Statistics Canada on how the COVID-19 pandemic has affected Canadians. She and the other members of the committee are ready to start their study of government's relief effort. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

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BY PETER MAZEREEUW

May 4, 2020

The two Senate committees overseeing the government’s COVID-19 response are aiming to begin meeting virtually this week, as Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s Liberals continue to roll out a relief effort that the parliamentary budget officer says will likely push Can...

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