Canadian Federal Finance Minister Bill Morneau chaired virtual round table with the Head of Research and Capacity Development at the UN-Habitat Dr. Eduardo Lopez Moreno on Friday to discuss the impact on COVID-19 on urban economies.
Many Canadian Mayors, Councillors and Chairs joined the meeting and spoke about their regions’ progress to recover local and regional economies amid the pandemic.
Minister Morneau highlighted some of the Canadian government’s initiatives to help people during the pandemic including the Canada Emergency Response Benefit and stressed on that the government’s work would be “imperfect by definition, because we won’t be able to solve everything for everyone.”
