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Topic: Canada Emergency Wage Subsidy
“Tens of thousands” of Canadian SMEs could go under without faster government help, innovation and business groups warn
Some of Canada’s 12,000 Canadian-owned small tech and innovative companies have already folded while others are being bought at fire-sale prices by large U.S. companies. Unless the government takes stronger measures, things will get worse, business leaders say.