I will take a slightly different tack, with the same end point as Lauren. I am really worried about the amount of money the government has been racking up in federal debt over the last little while, and I know we're passing the bill to future generations, including my 12-year-old son. I can also say, though, that businesses have been shut down in order to protect society. While subsidies do not work in ordinary times, they are absolutely necessary right now. These businesses need to be there to help us get out of this. If we want a chance of growing the Canadian economy once again and getting back to robust GDP growth in the future, we're going to need every single entrepreneur to keep working and to keep moving.
Businesses will fail, for sure. Many will be taken out by this, but we can minimize that amount if we get the program supports right and if we extend them until such time as governments can tell Canadians to return to work. The signal to the governments that they can start pulling back from subsidies is when we can say, “Canadians, go back to the office. Canadians, go back to the restaurants. Start dining again. Start going to the theatres. Start taking trips, including international trips.” When that happens, we can slowly start to reduce some of the supports that are there, but if we do that too quickly, these businesses will die and thousands of Canadian jobs will be taken out with them.