I'm really concerned about the concept of doing something retroactively. If there's one thing business needs to function, it's predictability. That's one thing we have not had from many of these programs. Even just to consider a retroactive policy is mind-boggling.
We know that many of the programs were created in haste and had many flaws. We assume that the Liberals had the best intentions of ensuring that the maximum number of jobs were protected during the pandemic. Businesses applied for these programs based on the criteria the government set for them. It's the government that set those criteria, flawed as they were, so you can't go back and blame the flaw on the applicant.