By Steve Scherer
OTTAWA (Reuters) – A recent increase in COVID-19 cases is forcing Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to reduce his plan to set an ambitious economic recovery schedule next week.
In a speech marked as a cross-style imaginable on the occasion of an early election, Trudeau is about to promise an increase in unemployment benefits, federal funds for childcare, and some elements for the environment, adding a renovation program to make buildings more powery. efficient, resources said.
A month ago, Trudeau handed over the reins of the Finance Department to its deputy prime minister and assistant Chrystia Freeland, who promised “bold” answers in a green strategy to be presented on September 23 in what is known as a Throne Address. Sources said he “saw big. “
But as the liberal leader and his ministers hugged behind closed doors on Monday to hammer the content of the speech amid emerging COVID-19 cases, Trudeau replaced management.
“We have to pass (the pandemic) Array . . . so we can communicate about the next steps,” Trudeau said that day.
Trudeau is expected to focus on federal investment in childcare and adapt the EI program to protect all Canadians, adding self-employed. It will also provide assistance to long-term care homes shaken by the pandemic, resources said under anonymity.
“It would be irresponsible for the government to tell other people that we are in a recovery phase when we are not,” a government source said this week.
But there will also be economic initiatives.
“The Throne Speech will give you a roadmap,” said a high-level source, referring to the speech describing the priorities of the governor-general, the representative of the head of state, Queen Elizabeth in Ottawa.
Some of the investments will be detailed in a pre-Christmas tax document and others in a spring budget, the government said.
Modernizing residential, advertising, and institutional buildings to make them more effective and resilient to climate change, which would create jobs, “is one of the things you’d like to see faster than after,” the government source said.
Incentives for the use and production of zero-emission vehicles, as well as national regulations requiring dealers to increase sales, can come, Resources said, as the government renews its commitment to zero net carbon emissions through 2050.
WATERS OF CHOICE
In Ottawa, early federal elections have been reported in recent months, as aid for the minority liberal government increased the pandemic and the number of instances declined this summer.
Trudeau trusts at least one opposition party to the vote of confidence that will remain in the Throne Address, which, if lost, can call elections only one year after the previous one. But he will most likely win the vote with at least the help of the leftist New Democratic Party.
“The truth of infection rates as high as in the springArray . . . changed the concept that the time had come to present an ambitious new vision that would serve as a base for electoral waters,” said Frank Graves, president of the polling company. . Search for EKOS.
More than 9,000 Canadians have died of COVID-19 and more than 139,000 have become inflamed with the coronavirus that causes the disease, to Health Canada.
So, for now, the Trudeau Green Revolution will come to the fore to fight COVID-19 and struggling Canadians.
“Of course we’re involved with climate change, but I’m a mother. I’m involved in my children going to school,” said Infrastructure Minister Catherine McKenna, a former environment minister, on Tuesday.
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(Report via Steve Scherer; Additional report via David Ljunggren; Edited through Denny Thomas and Paul Simao)