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Government’s wage subsidy to bring relief to Canada’s mining companies

Canada’s Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau, has recently announced that the government will be extending the wage subsidy to include businesses of all sizes. This is a critical component of a package of reforms designed to help businesses keep workers employed as the economy transitions through the COVID-19 pandemic.

‘Mines are shedding jobs and SME suppliers’

While Canada’s support for small businesses hit by the economic fallout of the coronavirus pandemic has been welcomed, Mining Association of Canada president and CEO Paul Gratton says the entire economy needs to be protected to allow the country to respond when the recovery starts.

We must protect the whole economy: MAC

Mining Association of Canada president and CEO Pierre Gratton said on the weekend the whole economy must be protected so there was the capacity to recover following the COVID-19 pandemic, agreeing the virus did not discriminate by business size.

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