Support for Canadian workers requires more than subsidies

Ensuring that workers are properly supported to do their jobs free of discriminatory barriers and strengthening the system for today’s gig-work environment should be as much of a priority as expanding the country’s export customers.
Patty Hajdu
Jobs Minister Patty Hajdu. EI reform has been on the to-do lists of various ministers in charge of Employment and Social Development Canada for years, with little or incremental progress.

New American measures to retaliate against Canada’s retaliation against the United States’ imposition of tariffs came into effect this week with a ban on Canadian-origin goods from federal U.S. procurement.

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