Thank you.
Ms. Kobluk, one of the things we've heard from the government is that Bill C-2 is about moving into the recovery phase of the pandemic. One of the other things we often heard from the government, not just recently, but particularly during the election campaign—which was before they had announced they were going to be summarily ending the CRB program in October—was that they're committed to not leaving anyone behind.
We're seeing a recovery where financially vulnerable people are having benefits clawed back. There isn't ongoing income support for a lot of people who are still struggling in an economy that isn't easy, in light of the pandemic. There are financially vulnerable people who are being pursued to repay debts. We then see on the wage subsidy side that there have been companies like Bell, Telus and Chartwell that received huge amounts of public subsidy and then paid out large dividends to their shareholders. They even increased the annual amount of their payouts by anywhere from 5%, 6% or 7%.
At a higher level, when we talk about the principles of the recovery—what it means not to leave people behind and to make sure that we have a fair recovery and that we're building back better—does Bill C-2 represent a move in that direction, or does it paint a very different picture of what the Canadian recovery is going to look like?