Every time I hear that there's a public service employee who has performed their job and who has not gotten paid, it's really disturbing for me, because nobody, as I have said repeatedly, should not get paid for work performed.
This is why, when we started to hear about people not getting paid, we made sure that every department knew and understood how important it was to make their employees aware of the opportunity to avail themselves of emergency pay, so that we would not have individuals out there unable to pay their mortgage, or whatever they need their paycheques for. When we heard about individuals who weren't getting paid, that was a concern for us, because we knew that every department had the ability to write emergency cheques, so that no one should have to go without pay.
Then, when we were hearing that some departments were actually taking the money back in one fell swoop, we said that's not right either. You need to be able to give people a pay system in order to pay the money back...the additional money that they got. With the emergency pay, it was really important for us to make sure that public servants who worked so hard did in fact get cheques. We wanted to make sure that—