Amid three million unemployed, digital minister extols benefits of departmental cooperation, rapid rollout of online benefit-finder tool

'I think the government did a very good job of thinking through what kind of programs would support people in different circumstances,' says Minister Murray, who adds the launch of the web tool involved a 'historic collaboration.'

Digital Government Minister Joyce Murray, pictured during a press conference in the National Press Theatre on May 2019, says the launch of the online benefits-finder tool 'was done very, very quickly, and I think partly it’s the process of real digital creativity.' The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

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BY MIKE LAPOINTE

June 4, 2020

For Canadians with eyes cast on the federal government for financial assistance in navigating the COVID-19 pandemic, multiple departments came together in recent weeks in an unprecedented, rapid display of cooperation to launch an online benefit-finder tool designed to quickly connect those in need ...

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