Just to put this on the record, in the Ahousaht Nation, where I live, 48 people have died, and in Hesquiaht, a tiny little first nation, 18 have, and not one of them from COVID—almost all young people, all preventable. I'm sorry to have so much anger, but this was preventable. These were lives that could have been saved.
I'm going to switch to this. Starting in April, Mr. Julian and I put out several calls to establish an emergency [Technical difficulty—Editor] program. When the CECRA program was announced and then eventually turned into the CERS program, we asked the government several times to backdate support for businesses that needed assistance, because they couldn't access it, for a number of reasons. It was strangely created. First, you had to have a mortgage backing it, and then, second, if your landlord didn't apply, you were exempt.
Is there an obstacle or a reason why the government can't backdate it? Those people who didn't get help are going out of business right now.