Thanks, Mr. Chair.
Thanks to our two witnesses to close off the week. We hope that your families are safe and healthy.
My questions are for Mr. Macdonald. Thank you very much for your work, Mr. Macdonald, on the analysis of work done to date.
I want to start off with the CERB, the emergency response benefit.
Other countries have put in place a universal benefit. Jagmeet Singh, of course, has proposed as well that it go out to everybody rather than marshalling public servants to reject, as you remarked, a substantial number of people. You've identified 862,000 in your report. I believe you said that there are another 2.1 million who have part-time wages and therefore also don't qualify, so we may be talking about as many as three million Canadians.
Also, how urgent is it that we fill those gaps, that we repair the problems with how CERB is constructed? Those are my two questions, to start.