New data obtained by the federal NDP show the Alberta government is a national outlier for leaving federal pandemic funds for frontline workers unclaimed. Without providing specifics, a government spokesperson says some extra money will be going to workers within weeks. Alberta had claimed just three per cent of the federal money offered, or about $12 million. NDP labour and immigration critic Christina Gray says the Alberta government is unfairly leaving Alberta workers in the lurch by refusing to provide matching funds that would secure hundreds of thousands of dollars in federal funding to top up workers' pay during the pandemic. Although a wider spectrum of workers in other provinces have received the federally subsidized top ups, the Alberta government has refused to say which Alberta workers they think should receive the boost.

Source: CBC News November 28, 2020 12:56 UTC