Trudeau announces that the government is looking at ways to expand the CERB to gig workers, people who have had their hours reduced. Plenty of questions to be asked about why they weren't captured in the initial plan. But it's good that this help is coming.

A reminder feels necessary that governments are unwieldy beasts that are usually not very good at moving quickly. That they've moved this quickly *already* will be studied for, like, decades. But for a lot of folks, it's still not fast enough, and that's real, too.

Pretty striking: Trudeau says there are health care workers, particularly in nursing homes, who might stand to make more from the CERB than from their jobs, so they're looking at fixing their pay.

I have to imagine he's talking about jobs like, say, PSWs. Glassdoor says the national average for starting PSWs is $26,500 (minus tax). The CERB is $2,000 a month, not taxed at source (but will be later).

So you have a situation where people extremely on the frontlines could make more money to not be at work. But also, more broadly, it just says a LOT about where we place value.

Folks who've been to long term care facilities know that the people who work in them are nurses, yes, but also PSWs, cleaners, cooks. For a real long time, those have been jobs that pay next to nothing. This is an opportunity to reassess all that.