Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Good afternoon, colleagues.
Ms. Mahboubi and Mr. Corak, thank you for your presentations. They were very interesting.
Ms. Mahboubi, I want to talk to you first, with respect to CERB. We all know that CERB was created to give income in the quickest way possible to those who lost employment during the pandemic. I think we can all look back really remarkably with a sense of pride at how quickly it did get out to so many people.
As CERB ended, obviously there was a transition to the simplified EI program for those who were eligible, and then obviously, the CRB.
In your opinion, what would have been the consequence of continuing the CERB and not relaunching a simplified and more generous EI program?