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Politics Briefing: Newfoundland and Labrador facing financial crisis, new report says

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At committee: COVID border controls and pandemic spending

iPolitics By Kady O Malley. Published on Apr 20, 2021 6:31am Border control was among the topics of the auditor general s report on pandemic preparedness. (Martin Regg Cohn/Toronto Star) Amid another round of surging COVID-19 cases across the country,  PUBLIC ACCOUNTS members will take a closer look at the initial efforts by the federal government to respond to the first wave of outbreaks last year, courtesy of a briefing session with Auditor General Karen Hogan on the findings of her report on “pandemic preparedness, surveillance and border controls,” which was tabled last month. The committee will also hear from the heads of the two agencies that were the focus of the audit: 

What We re Watching: Freeland s first pandemic-era budget

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.

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