Obviously, we've been actively engaged on this issue for quite a while, so we have been in touch with both the elected official side as well as the civil service side to encourage ways to return that money. We're certainly providing suggestions on how that could be done.
It's important to reiterate something you said earlier as well, which is that corporate bankruptcies are up over 130% year over year in Canada. We see more businesses closing than opening. We've had that three months in a row, which is unheard of in Canada. They need this help right now, so anything we can do to get that money back to those businesses will be very helpful. This has been our messaging.
We have been speaking to government, so there has been outreach. We have had those conversations, but we also want to make sure that any of that money that gets returned is not returned to just a distinct group of businesses or even larger businesses but is given back to as many businesses as possible, because all of them have had to pay.
It's important that this be a key component of whatever happens. We're very hopeful, but we have to just wait and see. We are continuing, of course, to use our members and their influence to also encourage government to return that money in those eight provinces that are affected.