Minister, I do have another question for you.
A great Sparks Street businessman, Sam Elsaadi, was telling me that many of the small businesses on Sparks Street are not able to access the emergency business account because they don't have payroll.
Now, it's positive that you've lowered the payroll requirement down to $20,000, but many new businesses, often immigrant-owned businesses, bring in family members to run the business and do all the work, and they all decide not to take a wage so that they can put all their money into debt repayment and growth. They can't get the wage subsidy because they have no historic payroll to qualify, and they can't get access to the emergency business account.
Would you consider allowing another measurement to qualify other than payroll so that deserving businesses like the ones that Sam is talking to can have a chance to get that $40,000 and keep their businesses alive?