Thank you, Mr. Chair.
I want to start off by building on comments that Mr. Fraser made earlier.
This was a historic support program that was rolled out. It was done quickly. It was big. It was done in a way that also provides a cautionary tale, and that is, when you rush these kinds of programs out.... I understand that there was a clear rationale for it and millions of Canadians benefited from it, but a lot of design flaws also occurred. A lot of mistakes were made. A lot of safeguards were missing. My plea to the Liberal members of this committee is to please not reject proper parliamentary oversight.
The Deputy Prime Minister recently claimed that opposition parties, specifically our party, was delaying Bill C-14, which is the fall economic statement. We're talking about hundreds of billions of dollars of spending. We're talking about increasing the debt ceiling to $1.8 trillion. The suggestion is that the opposition members should simply step back and allow these programs and this funding to roll out without much oversight. That is wrong. I think there are some lessons to be learned from the mistakes that have been made, as we've discussed today, and as has been broadly discussed not only in Parliament but across Canada.
First of all, who will be able to respond to questions on the Canada recovery sickness benefit?