| Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission
| speeches
The CRTC is working to build confidence and certainty in the market, and to maintain a world-class communications system that serves the public interest above all.
I’m Judith Robertson, the Commissioner of the Financial Consumer Agency of Canada.I’m delighted to be with you to launch the 2021 edition of Financial Literacy Month.
I’d like to begin by acknowledging that I’m speaking from the traditional territory of the Algonquin Anishinaabeg people. Thanks for that kind introduction, and thanks to Stéfanie von Hlatky for inviting me back to the KCIS.
When the COVID-19 crisis hit, our government rapidly rolled out a number of broad-based programs to respond to our country’s greatest economic shock since the Great Depression. The objective was straightforward: to prevent, insofar as possible, economic scarring and help workers and employers get through the pandemic and the restrictions it provoked. These programs have been a lifeline for workers and businesses across the country. They have protected millions of jobs, and helped hundreds of thousands of Canadian businesses keep going through the worst days of the pandemic.
Human rights violations and aggression being committed by Belarusian officials are completely unacceptable. That is why Canada was among the first countries to impose sanctions against the Lukashenka regime.