universal emergency fund

Covid relief for students doesn’t guarantee all student needs are met

By: Nicole Magas, Opinions Editor On April 22, Prime Minister Trudeau proposed legislation that would grant post-secondary students and recent graduates access to their own pool of COVID emergency relief funding. The Canada Emergency Student Benefit (CESB) would provide students with $1,250 per month until August 2020. Students with disabilities or those caring for others would receive $2,000. A summer grant program offering up to $5,000 for student volunteers, and a $75 million pool for Indigenous students, have also been proposed. On the surface it would seem quite generous for the federal government to invest so much (a total of $9…

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