Thank you, Mr. Chair.
I would ask if any officials have any corrections about the costing of this program. I would welcome their input.
Further to Mr. Davies' intervention, the amount of $10 billion struck a chord, and I just keep coming back to asking where the $10 billion is, because I don't see anywhere we could possibly be spending $10 billion with this. I looked at the PBO, too, and the legislative costing notes said there are $703 million for one aspect of it, and $940 million for the other aspect of it, which adds up to $1.643 billion. It's the same amount of money approximately. That's the total over the course of the three years this would be in place. There's some of 2022, all of 2023, and then some of 2024. This is a two-year period that would be starting now. It's a one-time payment of $500.
I suffer from the big numbers problem. That's an enormous amount of money. It sounds extraordinary. In May 2020, we unanimously passed a $300 top-up to CCB, because everybody was in dire straits. It was a really challenging time. Lots of people weren't working and things were costing a lot of money. And that was more money; that was $1.9 billion. This is an injection of money that is going to support Canadians who need it at a time when they really need it—and it's not $10 billion.
If I'm wrong, I would love some clarification.