WATCH: The BC NDP promising voters a $1000 dollar payment as part of its election platform. Canada recording it’s highest COVID19 case count. A classroom at a Surrey elementary school has been exposed to COVID19.
The $1,000 recovery benefit would apply to families whose household income is under $125,000 (with reduced amounts for families making up to $175,000) and would give $500 to single people making under $62,000 (with reduced amounts for single people making under $87,000).
Dr. Theresa Tam said public health officials in each area are trying to target their response to local epidemiology and circumstances, but are "steering in uncertain waters."
Canadian households can apply for $500 per week for up to 26 weeks when one person misses more than half a week of work because they have to care for a child because of the pandemic.
The government has until Dec. 18 to amend the law to comply with a Quebec court ruling last fall, which found it was unconstitutional to allow only those whose natural death is "reasonably foreseeable" to be able to get medical help to end their suffering.
The Prime Minister's Office has not explained where he was tested during a month when Ottawa residents were waiting hours in line to be swabbed, and sometimes more than a week for results.
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The Fraser Health Authority, which operates Delta Hospital, says patients requiring care outside those units will not be admitted "for the time being" in order to protect them from the risk of transmission.