Self-employed Canadians who got the Canada Emergency Response Benefit (CERB) under the mistaken impression they were eligible shouldn’t have to repay it, says NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh.
“Prime Minister Justin Trudeau should issue a directive very clearly stating that self-employed workers (who) have applied in good faith … should not be the subject of any scrutiny,” Singh told reporters on Tuesday.
About 441,000 “educational” letters from the Canada Revenue Agency were recently sent to CERB recipients telling them to verify their eligibility.
Many self-employed workers have learned that CERB eligibility was based on net not gross income of $5,000 or more in 2019, or in the 12 months before applying.
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Bank of Canada officials are getting increasingly testy at suggestions the central bank is enabling a spending spree in Ottawa by vacuuming up federal debt to the tune of $4-billion a week.
Governor Tiff Macklem and other central bank executives have used recent public appearances to refute charges that the bank’s quantitative easing (QE) program, which technically aims to lower long-term interest rates, is doing double duty by facilitating a near doubling of federal spending as Ottawa opens the floodgates to support the economy through the pandemic.
Year in review: A look at news events in November 2020
by The Canadian Press
Last Updated Dec 14, 2020 at 4:58 am EDT
A look at news events in November 2020:
01 – The Royal Canadian Legion named Debbie Sullivan of Saint John, N.B., as this year’s Silver Cross mother. Her son, navy Lt. Chris Saunders, was killed at the age of 32 when a fire broke out aboard his submarine 16 years ago.
01 – Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland was cleared of COVID-19. She got tested after her COVID Alert phone app told her she’d been near an infected person.
02 – Former federal cabinet minister Peter MacKay announced he is quitting politics. MacKay had been spending the fall pondering his political future after finishing second to Erin O’Toole in the Conservative party leadership contest.
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There were 482 active COVID-19 cases in the Northern Health region as of Dec. 23 with 31 new cases reported Wednesday (1,651 total). There have been 1,152 recoveries, 16 related deaths, and 43,857 tests to date.