COVID-19 shutdowns cost them their revenue streams.“It continues to be a hardship on the branches because they have no income coming in but the monthly bills are still there,” says Jack Clayton, Executive Director of the Royal Canadian Legion’s New Brunswick Command.
Royal Canadian Legion branches adapt to support veterans during coronavirus pandemic Legions in the province closed their doors just days before New Brunswick’s government ordered all non-essential businesses to do so.Clayton says, unlike many of those businesses, branches do not qualify for most emergency subsidies offered by the Government of Canada.“They also didn’t meet the criteria for the 75 per cent wage subsidies for workers,” he says, “because almost all the workers.