Ottawa announces billions to support businesses, relaxes some EI rules
Employment and Labour Minister Steven MacKinnon says the move to temporarily relax rules for the employment insurance work-sharing program will ‘provide stability to our sectors at a time of great unrest.’ International Trade Minister Mary Ng announced, starting this year, the federal government will be providing $5 billion over two years to ‘help Canadian businesses tackle the challenges imposed on them by these U.S. tariffs.’