Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says his government will work with Air Canada and the rest of the struggling air travel sector amid the coronavirus pandemic but offered no details on what the potential support would look like.
Air Canada announced Friday it plans to lay off around 20,000 employees due to the devastation COVID-19 has brought to its business.
During his near-daily update outside Rideau Cottage on Saturday, Trudeau was asked about a possible bailout for Canada’s biggest airline or whether the airline — which was privatized in the late ’80s — should be nationalized once again.
Trudeau said the government was considering support for specific sectors in addition to aid already announced, such as the Canada Emergency Wage Subsidy