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Politics This Morning: Freeland debuts first budget featuring $30-billion over five years for child care

The budget proposes some $101.4-billion in new spending over the next three fiscal years, and calls for an extension to some of the pandemic-relief measures like the wage subsidy.

'After 50 years of talking about it and fighting for it, we’re finally going to get it done,' says Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland of the feds' plan to establish a national child-care system. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

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BY BEATRICE PAEZ

April 20, 2021

Good Tuesday morning, Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland's first budget comes with a host of hefty spendi...

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