COVID-19: PM announces Canada-US border closure, multi-billion dollar aid package

By Kirsten Clarke / Richmond News
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says ‘extraordinary measures’ include extending tax deadlines, wage subsidies and income support, moratorium on student loan payments

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has announced a multi-billion dollar economic stimulus package to help Canadians amid the COVID-19 pandemic – and the closure of the Canada-US border to all non-essential traffic. “We have agreed that both Canada and the United States will temporarily restrict all non-essential travel across the Canada-US border,” Trudeau announced, speaking from self-isolation outside his home in Ottawa Wednesday morning.…

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March 18, 2020

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