It totally depends on what kind of model you had in mind. If it were to be a $2,000 cheque to each adult and there are 30 million adults in Canada, that would be $60 billion a month multiplied by 12 months. You'd get into numbers that are astronomical.
Of course, one could try to tax that at the back end, but that's a lot of giving up money on one end and bringing it back on the other. There are already enough challenges with CERB in trying to do that. I can't imagine at tax time in 2021 trying to collect $300 billion or $400 billion that was handed out at the front end.
I think the decision that was made with CERB was the right one for those circumstances to be faced in March, April and May. As we get into July and August and, in some provinces, June, as we're starting to open up, I think it's appropriate to shift our policy focus towards the wage subsidy.