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We will only know if the government makes the information public. The idea of CEWS wasn't to make companies profitable, it was to allow them to keep their employees without going broke.

After taxes are filed with CRA next spring, a bunch of money could be taken back from companies who didn't need it.  I have no idea what the formula is for these programs.  Sooner or later a lot of this stuff is going to come out.

I get the need to rush the programs, so it's understandable that for at least the first 2-3 people will get things they don't deserve no matter what was done.  But a few months is enough time to realize major errors and figure something out a bit more nuanced.  It's not enough time to develop and implement a complex program but it's enough to develop something that's better than something rushed out ASAP.

Like I said, they were busy and there was legal muck to go through:

https://apps.cra-arc.gc.ca/ebci/hacc/cews/srch/pub/dsplyBscSrch?request_locale=en

Currently, you can only see if a company got money, but not how much, because that's not necessarily legal atm.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/federal-government-searchable-database-subsidy-1.5852424

More fallout from Trudeau's ill-conceived bailout plan.

Chinese state-owned companies among recipients of Canada Emergency Wage Subsidy

Air China, a subsidiary of the state-owned China National Aviation Holdings, received wage subsidies. Air China experienced a substantial revenue drop in the first half of 2020, making them eligible for the CEWS. Air China also collaborates with Huawei. Another Chinese state-owned airline, China Southern Airlines, received subsidies under the program.

Another major company which received subsidies under the program is a Toronto branch of the Bank of China. The Bank of China has a long history of scandal, including being accused of funneling cash from countries such as Iran and Syria to terrorist organizations such as Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad, both of which are recognized as terrorist organizations by the Canadian government.
https://thepostmillennial.com/state-owned-chinese-companies-among-recipients-of-canada-emergency-wage-subsidy

Do you think American, German, South African-owned companies working in Canada should receive it? 

Which companies are owned by those governments that are working in Canada?

So you have issues with state-ownership, not with a foreign company receiving the subsidy? 

Yes.  State owned vs private company are very different.  I don’t think we should be giving Canadian tax dollars to the Chinese government.  Especially after what they’ve caused.

You think they made the virus in a lab?  And then unleashed it on their people?

You think they made the virus in a lab?  And then unleashed it on their people?

I have a problem with giving Chinese companies anything, regardless of Covid. I'm damn sure no Canadian company operating in China would get a plugged nickel from the Chinese government.

Should we allow them to operate at all in Canada?

Well, I was happy to see the sale of TMAC to Shandong Gold just got shot down by the feds.

Should we allow them to operate at all in Canada?

That isn’t the issue at hand.  Stop shifting the subject.  It’s about Canadian tax money going to the Chinese government.  It’s not enough that they’ve cost us trillions economically as well as tens of thousands of lives.  But hey!  Let’s give’em money too!  JFC what’s wrong with you people?