Prime Minister Trudeau said Thursday that Canada’s essential workers were “tremendously economically vulnerable.”

While Canada plans on raising the pay of its health care workers who are on the front line of the coronavirus battle, a plan to raise the pay of U.S. health care professionals proposed by Democratic Representative Matt Cartwright has yet to be voted on.
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s office announced a $4 billion plan to raise the salaries of essential workers who make less than $2,500 per month. Included in the agreement will be health care workers on the front line, the elderly and food industry employees. Canada’s government is expected to contribute $3 billion to the plan with the remainder covered by Canada’s provincial governments.
Trudeau said Thursday that he recognized the need to take care of Canada’s essential workers, “people who are tremendously economically vulnerable, and vulnerable in other ways in our society, who extremely important to the functioning of our society.”
While the U.S. has enacted some coronavirus stimulus financial relief for its residents, there has still been no movement on suggestions to raise the salaries of health care workers.
Besides Cartwright’s plan, which calls for a hazard pay increase for health care workers of $18.50 per hour, Utah Senator Mitt Romney has indicated that he will begin drafting a proposal that would temporarily give essential workers a temporary pay boost for May, June and July.
This is a developing story and will be updated.