Nearly six million people have applied for COVID-19 emergency aid benefits in the past month.
Nearly six million people have applied for COVID-19 emergency aid benefits in the past month.
Figures from Employment Minister Carla Qualtrough’s office show that more than half of them (3.5 million) have applied for the Canada emergency response benefit (CERB) since applications opened on April 6.
The total figure of nearly six million includes those who applied through the employment insurance (EI) process, which will be streamed through CERB for the first four months. To date, close to 5.4 million aid claims have been processed.
Conservative finance critic Pierre Poilievre is holding a news conference at 11 a.m. ET