I'm just really worried about driving populism with something like this. You're making business owners, who fought hard to maintain Canadian jobs during lockdown by legally utilizing the available government programs, into the evil villain. It only leads to serious market insecurity and damages our reputation abroad.
Who would want to do business in such an unpredictable environment as this? Are we trying to chase jobs away? This government needs to continue to protect jobs and the businesses that maintained those jobs during the pandemic.
Today we heard from the PBO. He reported that the budget plans to spend $150 billion and will create only 66,000 new jobs. If you do the math—