Justin Trudeau’s promise to provide a $600 payment to disabled Canadians to help with additional costs in the COVID-19 pandemic remains in limbo.The measure was contained in a piece of legislation that failed to pass in June and no replacement is on the agenda for a House of Commons sitting this week.
COVID-19 disability benefit, even if approved, would ‘miss all kinds of people’ A spokesperson for Carla Qualtrough, the minister in charge of the file, says the government continues to work to find a solution but provided no details.[ Sign up for our Health IQ newsletter for the latest coronavirus updates ]The opposition Conservative-party and New Democrats say the Liberals have to find a way to make good on that pledge.