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The wage subsidy was introduced in April 2020 to help companies with significant revenue declines cover payroll costs and avoid laying off workers. The group said they also found that most of the companies that received wage subsidies actually reduced their overall employment in 2020 and almost half still had employment in 2021 that was lower than in 2019.found at least 68 publicly traded Canadian companies continued to pay out billions of dollars in dividends while receiving at least $1.03 billion of government assistance in the form of the Canada Emergency Wage Subsidy.
I'm as pro stocks, pro business and fiscally conservative as they come and I completely agree. They should pay the money back with interest and be publicly shamed.
How about foreign owned companies that took in CEWS while posting record revenue? I know of one.