Liberals pledge $100B to heal the pandemic economy

Published: Dec. 1, 2020, 5:10 a.m.

On Monday, Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland announced the Liberal government will spend up to $100 billion to support the post-pandemic economy. The priority is, as Freeland says, to do \u201cwhatever it takes\u201d to help Canadians, despite the record-high $381 billion deficit.\nCBC senior parliamentary reporter David Cochrane breaks down the details of the economic update, and tells us what critics had to say about it.