I think President Laporte was saying that our government has taken the right steps right from the beginning to respond as quickly as possible to a crisis situation. Ensuring that working-class and middle-class families were the priority was the right way to approach this pandemic. It doesn't mean that everything was done perfectly right from the get-go, but it does mean that the government was reacting and responding as quickly as it possibly could.
Easing the supports is not the responsible response at this time. We're not there yet. I don't believe that easing the supports is going to solve or resolve any of the problems that have been outlined, whether it's on individuals or on the small businesses that are all in crisis at this time. As long as we have a pandemic, as long as people are asked to stay home and as long as businesses and organizations are closed, then people have to survive, and we have a responsibility, as a society, to take care of one another. The government is the facilitator of that care.
If we are going to start to think about an evolution in how we're going to be approaching benefits like the CRB, or other benefits under the employment insurance program, for example, looking at them from the perspective of how the recovery is going to take shape in the economy is going to be the way to do this.
One way of doing that, which is really key here, is for sectors that have been devastated and are looking at a whole transformation.... Workers in those sectors need to be transformed as well. How do we move people? How do we transition them from benefits like the CERB into employment that's meaningful? Training and investing in training—I think the government is looking at ways of doing that through the EI program—are really key here.