Thank you for your question.
The law provides two things. First, it requires that the government return all direct revenue to the jurisdiction, but then it provides discretion as to how to do that. It can return the money to the government or to designated persons.
Minister McKenna has stated publicly that provinces or territories that ask for the backstop to be applied will receive the money directly to the provincial or territorial government. So far, although it has not been made formal, a number of governments, New Brunswick and Yukon, for example, have indicated that they want the backstop to be applied, at least in part.
Then we have the issue of a jurisdiction that does not ask for the backstop to be applied but where the federal government determines there is not a system in place that meets the federal benchmark. All I can tell you at this point is what the law says, namely, that it provides the government with these two options. If the government chooses not to return the revenue to the provincial or territorial government, it will need to designate persons, and the government has not yet made any public indication of how it will do that or who those persons might be. Will it be in the form of a technology fund, will it be directly to households, or will it be some combination of all those are options? That decision has not been made yet.