Thank you very much, Mr. Chair. I appreciate it. I did want to go back to Mr. Kelly, who now has rejoined us, with translation.
Thank you very much for being with us.
First, you mentioned during one of your last responses that it might not be your usual reputation at the CFIB to be advocating for this kind of immense public spending to combat an emergency. I'm curious as to when the time will come when you live up to your pre-existing reputation.
You see, the challenge right now is a bit easier in some ways, I find, because everyone, more or less, is suffering from a particular common threat, with some obvious exceptions. There's going to come a time if these emergency temporary benefits remain in place for too long where the benefits may actually have a market-distorting effect, where we will be rewarding people who do not rebuild their businesses successfully and creating a competitive disadvantage for business owners who, for example, no longer see a 30% drop in revenue.
When are we going to know when it's the time to rip the band-aid off, so to speak, and to know that the emergency is over and we should let the market, rather than government supports, dictate which businesses succeed?