Thank you very much, not only to my colleagues but to the officials who've joined us. I know how hard you've been working over the past few weeks. On behalf of Canadians, I want to pass on my gratitude.
My first question builds on a line of questioning from Mr. Julian earlier during this meeting about the timing of the rollout. There have been some calls for, essentially, a universal payment that reaches everyone equally. I wrestled with this personally for some time. One concern I had is that we may not have the ability to simply send a cheque to everyone. The time you could take to set up a new system may result in a delay that would leave people without a much-needed income, which they need ASAP.
I'm wondering if you can comment on the need to use existing structures to expedite payment, whether it's the GST rebate, the Canada child benefit, ceasing payments on student loans or lifting the burden of remittances for payments that may become due. Can you talk about how those processes would have essentially allowed us to get cash out the door more quickly, to ensure that individuals would be able to put food on the table?