For the initial phase of the crisis, the idea of freezing the economy or pressing pause so that we could push down the curve and understand a bit more about what this virus was doing was, I think, tremendously important. We've seen in almost all provinces that we've had really good success in pushing that down, and in many provinces, really close to zero. A couple of provinces are still working on their cases, but great progress has been made. That was in part because we put in place programs that allowed us to pause to fight the virus.
Now, as we enter a different phase of the crisis, I think it's important to understand that we have policies that are appropriate to this phase. In this phase, when it is safe in a particular place in a particular province, we want people to get back to work. We need to make sure that our policies support those decisions. That's where the wage subsidy comes in.
We want firms to start re-employing people so that they will have money and they can spend it in their neighbourhood shops, and then those people will have money to spend in their neighbourhood shops. That's how an economy works. It's this circle of money that goes from one place to another, from my pocket to yours. We want to kick-start that entire process by getting people back to work. In my view, that's what the wage subsidy is trying to do.