Thank you so much, Mr. Chair.
I want to say a huge thank you to you, Minister Qualtrough, as well as Associate Deputy Minister Benoît Robidoux, for joining us today. In addition, Minister, I just want to say a huge thanks to you for your extraordinary work and leadership in supporting Canadians over these last few months as Canada is trying to find its way through this unprecedented pandemic.
Since the lockdown, our federal government has put out 70 emergency programs at a cost of over $200 billion. In your opening remarks, you mentioned that on April 22, we announced a $9-billion program. It included four key programs. One of them was the Canada student service grant, but there were three other big programs that you were in charge of: the Canada emergency student benefit, the creation of up to an additional 116,000 jobs, and adjustments to the Canada student loans and grants program. I know that students were also able to stack up these programs as well.
I'm mentioning all of this because I think there might be some confusion in the public that if we're not offering the Canada student service grant, there's no support out there for students. Indeed there is support. The Canada student service grant was only up to $900 million, and all the student support is $9 billion.
My question to you, Minister, is this. Can you give us a sense of the success of the other programs, particularly the three that you oversaw, and how they have supported and benefited students?