‘You're just invisible and you don't matter at all’: The structural violence of the COVID-19 Canada Emergency Response Benefit (CERB)

In March of 2020, the Canadian government introduced the Canadian Emergency Response Benefit (CERB), a taxable income transfer of $2000 CAD a month received by millions of Canadians during the COVID-19 pandemic. We argue that CERB is an example of structural violence because the eligibility requirem...

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Main Authors: Abby Taher, Elaine Power, George Payne
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Critical Public Health Network 2025-03-01
Series:Journal of Critical Public Health
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Online Access:https://journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/jcph/article/view/77909
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