Mr. Chair, I specifically asked the question not only to highlight the importance of health research, but I think it's also going to be absolutely critical when it comes to helping us catch up. The virus is obviously ahead of us right now, and it is about giving us an opportunity to overcome it, to catch up and to defeat it. The health research side is incredibly important, and any information that officials want to follow up with would be great. We can only get back on our economic feet, if you like, if the health research helps to get us there.
I want to ask a question on the wage subsidy also. I think you said there are officials from ESDC, Mr. Chair. Could they highlight what thinking went into the overall program design? Were we looking at what other countries were doing? This is obviously unprecedented in scope and scale.
There is also the underlying importance of making sure there is a link between employee and employer. From a social perspective, that is really important. Perhaps they could speak to that concept, that theme, and how it went into the construction of the overall subsidy.