Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland issued a warning Tuesday to Canadian companies that have tapped into the government’s wage subsidy program: the money is to be used to pay workers, not to pay for dividends or executive bonuses.
“I want to emphasize … for any companies that may be listening, that the wage subsidy must be used to pay workers,” Freeland told members of the House of Commons finance committee Tuesday. “That is very, very clear and we expect companies to comply with that.”
Do you believe a word she says? Does she?
