First, that was absolutely not and continues not to be at all anybody's thinking with respect to pandemic spending. The “money meh” comment you mentioned was literally—my emails are all public, and you know I'm very casual and colloquial in my speech—a joke between peers.
I might emphasize as well that in my colleague Rachel's email to me when she talks about a distribution change, it is still within the $900 million approved by the minister and the Prime Minister in the set-aside from the April 22 announcement. In fact, there was no more money at all. What she was talking to me about was entirely in scope within that $900 million.
