Pandemic supports surpass losses for lower-income households, suggests new data

Statistics Canada figures suggest Ottawa did ‘the right thing’ with its COVID-19 economic relief measures, says Senator Diane Bellemare. ‘Otherwise, the impact would have been worse.'

Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland, pictured with Employment Minister Carla Qualtrough in September 2020, has vowed to table a budget sometime this spring that will bring 'carefully judged, targeted' measures to create jobs coming out of COVID.The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

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BY PALAK MANGAT

March 1, 2021

As many coped with the impact of economic closures and lost wages, Ottawa’s pandemic relief measures “more than compensated” for the losses lower-income households experienced, and instead, led to an uptick in disposable income, according to new data.

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