According to a new Statistics Canada study, the Canada Emergency Wage Subsidy (CEWS) supported one in six employees of rural businesses from January 17 to May 8, 2021. This accounted for one-tenth, or $1.5 billion, of the CEWS amounts disbursed nationwide by the program over this period. Rural areas are defined as regions outside census metropolitan areas and census agglomerations.
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