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EDMONTON, Alberta, May 13, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Restaurants Canada is calling for a sector-specific support package to recover more than 400,000 foodservice jobs — including 52,500 jobs still missing from Alberta's restaurant sector.
"Restaurants are key to feeding Alberta's recovery and bringing back jobs, but first they need to survive," said Mark von Schellwitz, Restaurants Canada Vice President, Western Canada. "If subsidies are scaled back too soon, they won't have the working capital they need to transition from survival to revival."
Restaurants account for most of Canada's pandemic employment gap
According to the April Labour Force Survey from Statistics Canada, more than two thirds (70.9%) of the 503,000 jobs still missing from the Canadian economy in the wake of COVID-19 are from the foodservice sector.