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Canada Plans ‘Additional Measures’ to Help Ailing Sectors

Bill Morneau speaks during an Ottawa news conference on March 18, 2020.Photographer: David Kawai/Bloomberg

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By Shelly Hagan

March 19, 2020 at 3:28 PM UTC

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Canada’s finance minister said the government will do whatever it takes to alleviate the economic fallout from the pandemic and indicated that more fiscal measures are likely.

“We don’t take anything off the table,” Finance Minister Bill Morneau said during an interview Thursday with BNN Bloomberg television.