Mr. Chair, I raised my hand when I heard Mr. Julian, in speaking to this amendment to the amendment, starting to go on about the lack of work that the government has been doing.
The reality of the situation is, Mr. Chair, that 8.9 million Canadians have received CERB and 5.4 million Canadians received CERB between the time the World Health Organization declaring a global pandemic and a month and four days later. This government has been working around the clock, and, more importantly, so have the officials for the government, the departments, the folks who have been coming in for overtime, folks who have been working from home relentlessly to develop programs that would probably otherwise take 18 months to develop. You're seeing these programs come together, like CERB, in a matter of five or six days.
For Mr. Julian to be making the point, which he just made a moment ago, that the government is not doing anything and is not doing meaningful things to support Canadians, I think, is incredibly disingenuous, especially when you look at the facts.
He brought up businesses, so to address his point specifically, 106,000 small business have received commercial rent assistance in Canada. That's a lot of businesses throughout our country that are receiving assistance from the federal government.
There are 994,000 employees who have been helped as a result of that, and those businesses—