Thank you very much, Mr. Chair.
My constituent, Samir Patel, purchased multiple restaurants last year, buying two smoothie bars in October and a pizzeria in July. Samir reached out to our office and reported that his CEBA loan application for the smoothie bars had been denied, yet the pizza application was approved.
My question for the Deputy Prime Minister is when will her government change the CEBA program qualification criteria to support business owners like Samir who have been excluded from the program because of when they purchased their business last fall?