Feds’ COVID-19 relief measures for businesses should be more ‘agile,’ says Senator

'I think it has to be, if I would put it in one word, it’s ‘agile.’ So if it’s progressive, it’s scaleable, more businesses have access to it,' says Independent Senator Tony Loffreda.

Independent Senator Tony Loffreda, pictured in the Senate Chambers last November, says the federal government should now shift its attention to managing its projected $343-billion deficit. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

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BY PALAK MANGAT

July 14, 2020

As the government moves toward a phased reopening of the economy, and shortly after it unveiled a projected $343-billion deficit last week, a Senate committee report is calling on Ottawa to tweak its relief programs to reflect a more “progressive”

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