Regional Relief and Recovery Fund: Nonprofit Social Enterprises Excluded

The federal government announced nearly $1 billion in support of a Regional Relief Recovery Fund (RRRF) to help small- and medium-sized enterprises that are unable to access other federal COVID-19 relief measures. However, nonprofit social enterprises have been excluded from this fund in Alberta, British Columbia, Saskatchewan, and Manitoba, though they are eligible for support in Quebec.

CCVO encourages Alberta nonprofits that rely on social enterprise funding to write to the Minister of Economic Development and Official Languages, Mélanie Joly, about the exclusion at ED.minister-ministre.DE@canada.ca, and to copy the Parliamentary Assistant for Western Economic Diversification Canada, Terry Duguid, at Terry.Duguid@parl.gc.ca.