Liberal MP refuses to answer Poilievre’s questions about CERB abuse
Reports confirmed that the number of people who claimed CERB was six times higher than the number of people who were made jobless by the pandemic.
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Reports confirmed that the number of people who claimed CERB was six times higher than the number of people who were made jobless by the pandemic.
Conservative Finance Critic Pierre Poilievre attacked the Liberals, demanding to know how much CERB money was sent abroad.
In a video published on to Twitter, Poilievre is seen asking Liberal MP Randy Boissonnault this question. Yet, every time Poilievre asked a question, the MP avoided it.
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View on XPoilievre ended up calling this Liberal Canada's most expensive cassette player, with his trademark hashtag Justinflation.
Recently, a Liberal MP admitted that Trudeau's CERB program during the pandemic undoubtedly was abused by scroungers.
Reports later confirmed that the number of people who claimed CERB was six times higher than the number of people who were made jobless by the pandemic.
"There is no doubt that when creating a program as quickly as we did, there is going to be some abuse of that program," said Liberal MP Kevin Lamoureux.
Nearly 9 million Canadians claimed CERB. Yet, only 1.4 million Canadians were made jobless by the pandemic and the subsequent lockdown restrictions.
Initially, the Trudeau government budgeted $24 billion for the program. The costs, however, rose to $81 billion. The Trudeau government has never attempted to explain how this program went so massively over budget.
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