On Saturday morning, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau outlined the $200 million dollar funding allocated for vulnerable Canadians during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Trudeau says no one should have to choose between being somewhere they are unsafe and risking getting COVID-19. He announced investments of $40 million for women’s shelters and sexual assault centres across the country, $10 million to emergency shelters for indigenous women and children and $157 million towards the Reaching Home Program. Trudeau says the communities who require this funding have been identified and money is already getting to them. The homeless shelter funding will go towards buying physical barriers, additional beds or renting new spaces and facilities to keep people safe. These announcements today are in addition to 16.5 million dollars in funding announced last week for the Kids Help Phone and programs dedicated to the United Way to help senior citizens.
The Prime Minister says COVID-19 projections from the Federal government will be produced in the coming days. In Canada, he says, provinces are experiencing, handling and bringing in measures to adjust to their own situations in various ways. At the federal level they depend on provincial data that is being collated and aligned, so in the coming days projections can be made in to provide a vision of what Canada can expect.
Cases Near 13,000 in Canada
There are now 12,924 cases of COVID-19, including 214 deaths, in Canada.
