Why Jagmeet Singh doesn’t think there should be CERB criteria

NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh shares what financial measures he would like the federal government to introduce for Canadians and businesses.

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29 comments

  1. medically disabled. currently my conservatively governed provincial rent assist is not active due to annual renewal paperwork. we got nothing from our wealthy premier… the renewal application will take several months to reinstate, and although my medical disability is permanent i am required to reactivate annually. currently living on $770 per month, my rent is $840 per month. running out of favors… butterflies in my pockets. quarantined with mild symptoms since march 15th.

    1. Please be strong during these most humbling of times. Even a small amount of optimism can create the leverage you and others require.
      I completely understand how humbling you have things at present, nomatter what, you ARE worthy!

  2. YES!! THERE’S ALWAYS A WAY TO RECOVER THE MONEY!🌈💦🔥❤

    DECISIONS. SUGGESTIONS. SOLUTIONS!

    1. @Wone Motie serious question: is that bad if you never had to worry about any needs ever again in your life? You never had to worry about paying a mortgage or a rent, or for a phone or internet bill, or for transportation that gets you wherever you want whenever you want and live in a society where everyone has that too because there’s no need to prevent anyone else from having it. If we could have that then absolutely I’d pay 80% taxes and then just enjoy my job for the social aspects.

    2. @Wone Motie It won’t be taxes that pay the bill. It will be inflation. More insidious than a tax. The next generation of political leaders will face the mountain and unfunded liabilities and will do the only thing that is mathematical possible short of default: de-index unfunded liabilities, stimulate inflation, and ensure wage growth matches inflation. That digs the future generations out of the whole. It does so by effectively using the purchasing power of pensioner savings to pay down the very liabilities they incurred years earlier. Prepare for an impoverished retirement if you depend on a pension. Especially a government pension.

    1. Tom you software algorithm, why dont you go rewire your processors and 3d print away global homelessness and starvation?

  3. My son is 19 years old and he was planning to start CO – OP job this April.
    The company sent e-mail to him and stay home now. How can he pay next semester tution?
    He needs job and money.
    The government should help everybody.

  4. promise and delay strategy…when Mr. Singh was asking the PM, both he and the deputy practically ignored him. Even if they needed him, They went on with their thoughts. I found it very disrespectful.

    1. Definitely aggressive towards Jugmeet. Compared with his interview with the Federal Minister where he was more concerned with subsidies for corporations.

  5. That $2000.00 funds should be pass on to everyone and it can return back through income tax system if the person still makes more money than the regulation guidelines.
    Because small businesses and landlords right now are considered as aliens.

  6. Sometimes I feel bad for Evan. He’s got his bosses at Bell in his ear telling him “you have to try to make it look like free money to all Canadians (stimulating a spending cycle and growth for the economy and small businesses) isn’t appealing because we don’t want our taxes going up”. And he has to make a fool of himself like this

  7. “How much would that cost? How are we gonna pay for it?” Really?…. I’m more sick of those questions than covid 19. It’s as if these nervous, accountant type Scrooges are paying these government funds out of their own pockets!

  8. Should also include essential services staff such has in grocery stores and senior homes, who get less than 2000 per month, to get CERB.

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