Thank you, Madam Chair.
Thank you to the honourable colleague for recognizing the Canadian Armed Forces. We need to take that time. Thank you so much.
I also want to answer his question by saying that yesterday we did expand CEBA to include dividends and contracts to be part of the CEBA program, and we continue to work on potential solutions to help business owners and entrepreneurs who operate through their personal bank accounts, as the member mentioned, or have yet to file a tax return because they are a newly created business.
We will continue to work with our departments and the members of Parliament to try to find ways to resolve these difficult situations for businesses.
I also want to mention to the House that since the CEBA's launch, over 612,000 businesses have applied for the CEBA program—