Thank you for the question.
The policy intent of CERB was to be to give people the economic resources to be able to stay home and to practise social distancing. Given that our employment insurance system did not have adequate coverage for all workers, and also was not able to just logistically handle the kind of demand that it saw, CERB was put in place as a temporary emergency benefit.
The issue of winding down is going to be really difficult. I think I alluded to that in my remarks. What we're trying to do is to think about ways in which we can support workers in returning to the workforce as it's safe for them. The timing of that, the nature of the safety and the constraints they will be facing will be various and varied.
I've previously expressed some concerns, or at least some operational issues, with regard to moving to a universal basic income, because, as I said, we don't have a magic list. We don't actually have a list that is in fact universal. We have set up a system that is as simple as possible and has been able to quickly ramp up to meet demand, yet it still isn't actually necessarily reaching everybody who is in need. It isn't, as we have seen, necessarily a magic bullet. We—