Thank you, Mr. Chair.
I'll start off by addressing an item that Mr. Cumming led off with. He indicated that he felt we were sort of fast on announcements but slow on execution. I'll remind those listening that I think now is the time to be fighting the global pandemic rather than having political parties fight one another. I'll also remind him of the fairly expeditious rollout of the CERB, which has seen millions of Canadians apply in a matter of weeks. The emergency business account is available as of today, and I've spoken with business owners. Despite some real obstacles that have been raised on this call, today also happens to be the day when millions of Canadians will see their additional GST cheque a month ahead of schedule and will receive the Canada child benefit ahead of schedule, as well. With respect, despite some very real challenges on the wage subsidy to get businesses the liquidity they need expeditiously, I'll remind him that things have been moving at torrential speed to date.
One of the things that some of our witnesses mentioned that could serve as an obstacle to continuing the expeditious rollout of programming is the fact that we really do need legislation and we need it as quickly as possible. I'll direct this question to the Canadian Chamber of Commerce.
I assume it would be your view that any sort of political gamesmanship directed towards anything on this wage subsidy legislation, other than actually improving the quality or rollout of the wage subsidy, would be inappropriate at this stage. Would you agree with that statement?