Emergency student benefit gets boost as part of deal to fast-track $9B aid package

The federal government’s proposed emergency benefit for students has been given a boost, as a result of backroom negotiations with the opposition parties in an effort to get an all-party deal to fast-track the bill to enact the $9-billion suite of measures on Wednesday. Before heading to Parliament Hill for the fourth in-person emergency session, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau had promised students that the measures aimed at helping them over the summer will be enacted “as quickly as