Pandemic-hit Canadian businesses call for eleventh hour aid extension Reuters 17 hrs ago
TORONTO, July 23 (Reuters) - Richard Vanderlubbe, owner of Canadian travel agency Tripcentral.ca, has had to cut active staff to about 15% of the total workforce and close all physical locations since the coronavirus pandemic s start, despite receiving the wage subsidy and business loan.
As the Canadian economy gradually reopens, the government is winding down these programs. But Vanderlubbe and other businesses hardest hit by the pandemic are calling for the extension of support until all restrictions are lifted, warning that failure to do so could choke many of them at the eleventh hour.