Thank you so much, Mr. Chair.
I want to thank all the participants for being here today. It's really lovely to be in Vancouver. I was very blessed to go to UBC for a year to start my MBA, and I applied to finish it off at the London Business School when we had an exchange with them. It no longer exists right now, but it was excellent at the time.
I'm the member of Parliament for Davenport. It's a downtown west riding. I've spent four years on this committee, and it's been a true privilege to do this.
I will say to you that one of the only negative things that has crept into our finance committee meetings is that there tends to be some misinformation or disinformation, and I just want to correct something. There are no Liberal senators, because we stopped associating as a party with any senator, so that actually stopped in 2015.
Eight out of 10 Canadians do get back climate rebates—more than what they pay in. Small businesses are different. We do a carve-out of an additional 10%. There has been an issue with businesses saying that they've not been able to access it. We do have to look into it. It's different also for rural Canada.
I was going to ask this question, Ms. Watson, and I'm going to start off with you. I have two food banks in my riding. They're wonderful groups of people. I go quite often to meet with people who are in the lineup to figure out what are the changes are in who they are. I will say to you that when I ask them about whether they have appreciated the grocery rebate or the GST rebate or any additional dollars the government has given, they have been profusely thankful.
There was a response back to one of my colleagues that it wasn't particularly useful to I guess your constituents or the people you represent. Can I just have you on record? Were you saying that the grocery rebate was not helpful to people who are using the Mustard Seed organization?