GUNTER: Trudeau's pandemic support -- overly generous and poorly targeted

If you’re like me, you read that and waited for the other shoe to drop.
I expected the next line would tell me how much Canadians – especially unemployed and low-income Canadians – had suffered from the economic lockdowns governments imposed to slow the spread of the virus.
Nope.
The “extraordinary changes” were almost all to the good. Lower- and middle-income Canadians made more from federal pandemic support payments than they would have made had they stayed at work.
“COVID-19 benefits outpaced earnings loses,” for most Canadians in the lower half of the income spectrum, StatsCan reports.
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