Starting today, Canadians eligible for the enhanced Canada Workers Benefit will begin receiving the first of three automatic advance payments without having to apply.
“We believe that a strong country, a healthy country, is a country with a strong and effective social safety net,” Finance Minister and Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland told reporters in Charlottetown, P.E.I., on Friday.
“It is really important to recognize how important work is to families, to people and to our country, but also to recognize that our lowest-paid, very often most essential workers, are not earning enough to get by.”
When the fall economic statement was released,
