I'm not sure that I understand what you mean by an equity tax credit, but the idea of some support as we move from lockdowns to ending of stay-at-home orders and advice and then into an open economy.... That transition is going to be a really delicate one and different for every sector of the economy. As was noted by my friend from Restaurants Canada, we are going to need a variety of measures.
The one I would advocate most strongly—to move us towards recovery with the pool that the Deputy Prime Minister has already suggested she's allocated for this purpose—would be to try to find some ways to relieve small business debt. The CEBA model, with the current one-third that is forgiven, could be ratcheted up. We've suggested that be expanded to a $80,000 loan that is 50% forgivable. The other is to move a forgivable component into the HASCAP loan for the highly affected sector.
If you did that, we think businesses would be helped. If equity implies perhaps government partial ownership of the business, I'm not sure that would be something we would support, but—