I see no irony in your question coming from a person by the name of Fast—the faster you can get this type of legislation into place, if I could put it that way without any pun intended, the more of those small businesses will stay in existence.
That was the case before COVID hit, but the comment from the Canadian Federation of Independent Business now is that if a quarter of a million of these businesses, 240-some thousand of these businesses, may not make it because of COVID, it could be a big help.
All sides of the House are looking for ways to be able to help small businesses stay in place, the 1.1 million I talked about earlier. You're right. Twenty per cent of them could disappear if those numbers were right.
I think our job as politicians is to make sure we keep as many of them viable as we can, and if legislation like this will help do that, I think it's a benefit not just for the small businesses but also for the eight or nine million people who they employ.