Thank you.
In this situation, right now my office is being inundated with emails from people who are falling through the gaps. Take, for example, the small business community. The government has tied the commercial rent subsidy to landlords. Some landlords don't have a mortgage, so they're saying this program doesn't work for them. Others are saying they don't want to deal with the paperwork and don't want to deal with the government, so they're not proceeding. There's no incentive to get landlords to support their tenants with this program.
Should the government be looking at changing the program so that the commercial rental assistance would go to the small business owner as opposed to going through the landlord? Should the requirement that it be tied to a mortgage be waived?