I would certainly be in favour of opening the gates as much as possible to accessing CERB. Whether this collective vulnerability we're all experiencing as a society galvanizes a new kind of conversation in our country about how much we support people who have basically fallen out of the economy and fallen out of society...I think it's a very important one.
We have to have the courage to say there is a number that no one should fall below. Whether it's $2,000, $2,500 or $3,000, that's a conversation to have. Then you could argue that perhaps it's better to reform EI, accelerate the Canada housing benefit and the workers benefit and implement pharmacare.
I think we need to have the courage to say that far too many of our fellow citizens are completely being ignored. That costs us. Morally it costs us. We are signatories to the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, which is about the right to food, and we are failing that miserably.
I'm all for supporting as many people as possible to ensure that they can put food on their tables regularly, and we're not doing that right now.