Federal Budget 2021: Ten key takeaways for the innovation economy
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With
Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland poised to deliver her inaugural budget speech on Monday afternoon, the Star’s Heather Scoffield has a sneak peek of what to expect: an across-the-board extension of “all the main pandemic-support programs until the coming fall,” as well as “a completely new benefit that subsidizes employers for hiring more people, or increasing the hours their employees work.”
In putting together what was once expected to be the first
post-pandemic budget, Freeland “has devoted much of her attention to plotting a long-term recovery strategy for the country, with child-care funding, inclusivity, and environmentally sustainable growth at the centre,” Scoffield notes.