Lessons from federal spending on COVID-19

Promised post-pandemic spending needs clear strings attached since many provinces are all too willing to call the feds’ cost-matching bluff.

Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland is pictured at a Nov. 23, 2020, press conference in Ottawa. Sustained federal leadership will be needed for years to come as Canada climbs out of the COVID-19 hole, writes David Macdonald.The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY DAVID MACDONALD

January 27, 2021

As Canada weathers its second wave of COVID-19 cases surging, it’s important to take stock of the lessons from governments’ first round of COVID-19 measures to see how it can inform the upcoming $70- to $100-billion in federal spending. I reviewed all costed federal and provincial measures to d...

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