Thank you for your question, Mr. Julian.
I have been doing a lot of thinking about that. What should we have done? What could we have done better? Would there have been a different approach?
I do understand the approach, in that it was set up to match the employment insurance system. These benefits are intended for workers. We do have a huge piece, as I said to you, missing in the middle of our income security system right now. We've dealt with the needs of families with children. We have a relatively good pension system in place. We've always identified this piece in the middle as problematic, and now we're trying to put in place an emergency benefit that is trying to address some of these gaps we've faced for a long time.
My sense is that we should continue at the moment with the plan that is under way and try to work out some of the problems that are coming to our attention. I just mentioned the other programs as plan B, so that we know we have them in place. If necessary—ideally we won't have to use them right away—we can ramp them up. Through both benefits—the child benefit for families with children and the GST credit for all Canadians—we have an apparatus in place to address those needs.
My sense is to go with what we—