ntrivuncic@fortfrances.com On March 4, Conservative Kenora riding MP Eric Melillo held a virtual meeting to talk about the Federal COVID-19 supports for businesses. This session is part of the Northwest Business Centre’s Business Conversation series, an online conversation with business owners and entrepreneurs from across the Kenora and Rainy River District. Along with discussing some of the federal government programs that exist for businesses, Melillo also canvased opinions about what the economic recovery should look like as the federal government is creating it’s 2021 budget. “There’s been a lot of conversations with minsters and parliamentary secretaries to make sure that the government’s going to bring forward a budget that is going to help us, especially in northwestern Ontario recover from the hit that we’ve experienced with COVID-19,” Melillo said.