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New Canadian Politics Thread

It’s the right move.

Curious, is Canada doing any sort of stimulus like the US?

According to the fed gov't website, this is what they've done...

- Temporary salary top up for low income essential workers
- Extra $300 per child for Canada Child Benefit
- One time special payment of Goods and Services Tax for low and modest income families ($400 for singles, $600 for couples)
- Extra time for income tax returns
- Permitting lenders to defer up to six months monthly mortgage payments
- Canada Emergency Response Benefit (CERB) $2000 per month every 4 weeks for 16 weeks
- $100 million to food banks, Breakfast Club of Canada, etc
- $157.5 million to homeless shelters
- $50 million to women's shelters/domestic violence/sexual assault centres
- $350 million to charities/non-profits for vulnerable Canadians
- $9 million to United Way
- Canada Emergency Student Benefit -- $1250 per month for students through the summer, $1750 per
month for students with disabilities
- doubling Canada Student Grants for students in 2020-2021
- suspend all student loan repayments for 6 months
-7.5 million to Kids Help Phone
- Canada Emergency Wage Subsidy - covers 75% of employees wages for employers of all sizes
who've seen a reduction in revenues of at least 15% for 12 weeks
- Temporary 10% wage subsidy for 3 months for some eligible businesses
- $50 million for agriculture/food supply chain
- $1,500 for each temporary foreign worker re agriculture
- Additional $5 billion in lending to food processors/agribusinesses

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No idea how it's actually working for people or if its enough. Count myself as extremely fortunate that I'm still employed and being paid.
 


I think this is fantastic. They deserve it. Especially LTC workers.

Mother in-law will be appreciative. Consolation prize for being asked to return to work ten days after her positive test I suppose. Should be backdated with retro pay but beggers can't be choosers.
 
I mean it doesn't affect me as much, but it does for a lot of my colleagues. It's ass backwards. These people may not be working in the hospital but they are taking the brunt of the mental health burden patients are going through, take a significant load off the ER and telehealth with telemedicine, and are responsible for keeping patients healthy so that their diabetes is under control, they stop smoking, etc. - all things that make you more susceptible to illness when you get this illness.

Like why does it take 3 months to add 3 billing codes to OHIP? It's maddening.
It's absurd. Just let docs use the old codes. Fee for service docs are, as usual, getting the shit end of the stick.
 
It's absurd. Just let docs use the old codes. Fee for service docs are, as usual, getting the shit end of the stick.

To be honest it affects everybody, not just family practice. The ER docs who are dealing with this daily and who are as front line as can be have had their billings drop approximately 50% over the last 2 months because a lot of people are avoiding the hospital. But when they do see people, the danger is as high as can be.

I get people don't feel bad for high earning members of society, but this "we will only give raises to certain people in the hospital and healthcare" really devalues the hard work these people do to keep everybody's family safe.
 
Helping out people who ordinarily make peanuts working in long term care homes or as PSWs is great.

Should also make sure doctors, respiratory therapists etc are recognized though. But I'd be interested in seeing the actual full details of this rather than the short article based on the initial announcement. Could be more to it.
 
To be honest it affects everybody, not just family practice. The ER docs who are dealing with this daily and who are as front line as can be have had their billings drop approximately 50% over the last 2 months because a lot of people are avoiding the hospital. But when they do see people, the danger is as high as can be.
Oh for sure, I was more refering to the FHT docs who are better off through this (and in general) through their arrangement.
 
The funny thing is, Trump had a gimme with this pandemic. If he simply acted like almost every other world leader, I genuinely believe he would have been a heavy favorite to beat Biden. Instead, I feel like his supporters have just become more of a smaller, niche, mentally group of people.
 
I guess the ironic part is that a lot of people that say they voted for him are tearing him apart on Twitter right now because he didn't give dates.
Yeah he's alienating the MAGA folk, which in Ontario is the wise move. I think that would have been the wise move in the US too for Trump, but maybe I'm just overestimating people's intelligence down there.
 
Doug may have won himself another term during this pandemic. Which is annoying cause pre-pandemic his government was atrocious. But he also has kinda earned himself some more rope with his response here.
 
Doug may have won himself another term during this pandemic. Which is annoying cause pre-pandemic his government was atrocious. But he also has kinda earned himself some more rope with his response here.


2022 is a long ways away man. Dougie will get some glow from his handling of the pandemic, but it's likely to be well in the rear view mirror by the time the next election happens and he'll have to govern in the post pandemic world as effectively as he's managed the crisis to get another term.
 
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