Glavin: A budget to pay for the Trudeau government s bungling on COVID elliotlakestandard.ca - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from elliotlakestandard.ca Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
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There is a word that appears in Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland’s budget speech this week, and it seems oddly out of place, especially so in light of the fact that Budget 2021 is largely a function of her government’s mishandling of the COVID-19 crisis. It’s the word “sorry.”
It’s not just that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has gone out of his way to insist he has no regrets about his government’s management of the catastrophe. It’s also that it was the Liberal government itself that had the heaviest hand in making the catastrophe that Team Trudeau is now setting about to repair with a federal budget that’s already a year overdue. As onetime Conservative finance critic Pierre Poilievre has pointed out, Budget 2021 will allow Trudeau the distinction of having sunk the country, in seven years, into a debt deeper than all the debts Canada had hitherto racked up over 148 years, combined.
Once praised for its Covid response, Uruguay now facing severe health crisis | Main | English edition efe.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from efe.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Once praised for its Covid response, Uruguay now facing severe health crisis 2 minutes read
Montevideo, Apr 14 (EFE).- The coronavirus situation in Uruguay has now reached alarming levels.
Formerly held up as an example of how to manage the pandemic, that small South American country now is seeing its health care system under severe strain as the number of confirmed cases steadily grows and the Covid-19 death toll is projected to climb to more than 1,200 in April.
Yet even as the medical emergency has worsened, the government has continued to avoid taking stringent measures to reduce people’s mobility.
The pandemic began later there than in other countries, while the relatively low level of cases and deaths caused Uruguay to be seen as a rare bright spot globally.
Canada is outpacing U S for new COVID-19 cases per capita krdo.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from krdo.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.