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Politics This Morning: Release of fiscal update amid pandemic ‘an exercise in invention and imagination,’ says Trudeau

Plus, Public Safety Minister Bill Blair says body cameras are 'an important tool of accountability,' echoing the prime minister's push to get RCMP officers outfitted with them in the wake of anti-racism protests.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says lingering uncertainty around the job prospects of the three million unemployed Canadians and the wider public's level of risk tolerance for resuming everyday activities makes it difficult to predict what the country's economic health will be in the next few months. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

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BY BEATRICE PAEZ

June 10, 2020

Good Wednesday morning, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau once again defended his government's inability to commit to releasing a fiscal update amid the pandemic, saying it has been transparent with Canadians in sharing the spending and relief measures it's rolled out over the mon...

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