speech on corona virus
earlier today ministers Blair haidu and
Garneau announced that Canada has
advised Canadians to curtail
non-essential international travel and
that the cruise season is suspended
until July and that we are bringing in
additional screening measures at airports
we are also streamlining overseas
arrivals to be better positioned forscreening yesterday we saw many
provinces take strong steps to keep
people safe they are doing what needs to
be done to protect the public and I want
to thank them for their exemplary work
later today I will have a call with the
Premier' s and indigenous leaders to
discuss the latest developments and
coordinate our efforts including the
over billion-dollar covid 19 response
fund which provides money to the
provinces and territories to support
preparation and mitigation these are
significant steps and we will do more
the provinces and territories are facing
various levels of risk but we will make
sure that we align our response across
the country addressing kovat 19 must be
a Team Canada effort to keep Canadians
safe to mitigate the economic impacts of
the virus all levels of government are
working together we are talking
regularly we are coordinating our
efforts we' re following the situation
very closely and we' re pulling out all
the stops I know that you' re worried
you' re worried about your health about
your family' s health about your job your
savings about paying rent
about the kids not being in school I
know that you' re concerned about
uncertainty in the global economy the
steps being taken to keep your safe have
an economic impact but what is also true
is that we are in the enviable position
of having significant fiscal firepower
available to support you this is an
addition to the measures we' ve already
taken the finance minister is also in
constant communication with his
international
or parts to find ways to work together
to mitigate the impacts of the virus on
the global economy he will have further
announcements shortly this afternoon the
agreement we reached with other parties
to suspend the house today also still
gives us the flexibility to do the
things we need to do in order to support
Canadians no one should have to worry
about paying rent buying groceries or
additional childcare because of covid 19
we will help Canadians financially the
Government of Canada will be introducing
a significant fiscal stimulus package in
the days ahead. we will continue to make
decisions based on recommendations of
medical experts public health
authorities and top scientists we
understand that we have taken
significant measures over the past weeks
and month to ensure that Canadians are
kept safe and to slow the spread of the
virus we will continue to make
determinations about how best to do that
based on recommendations of experts
we' re not closing the door to any
further steps but we will make those
decisions based on what science tells us.
(written by:-BalotraHeadNews)
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