Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland says Ottawa is constantly reviewing its border measures to guard against the spread of COVID-19 and more transmissible variants of the novel coronavirus.

Ottawas plan to lower early learning and child-care costs was a centrepiece of last weeks federal budget, but Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland warns that such a system wont quickly repair the economic damage wrought by the COVID-19 pandemic.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says he is working with provinces and territories to send more health-care workers to Ontario and boost rapid testing to shepherd Canadas most populous province through a gruelling third wave of the COVID-19 pandemic.