Yes, this has been a giant issue right from the very start of the pandemic.
I will say I do believe that most members of government, most ministers, are quite sympathetic to this. All of them have said to me many times that they're working on it; they're thinking about it; and they need a solution here. However, it does feel like the energy in fixing government support programs for small businesses has ended.
There was good energy in the fall, especially when the Deputy Prime Minister took the reigns at Finance. She did fix many of the gaps in some of the programs she inherited. There was progress being made, but when the new year hit, it felt as though the federal government said, “We're done. Businesses: you have what you have. We'll renew these programs a little bit longer, but—”