I see a difference between the CERB and the pandemic pay. There's no question in my mind that one of the reasons that employers gave the two bucks was the potential of the CERB.
However, I agree with the CERB. There are some pieces of it that I think need to be fixed, but a lot of low-wage earners who work in restaurants, a lot of the most vulnerable in our society, need it to get through the pandemic, so I don't second-guess that decision. What I do second-guess is what they did.
We know that 80% of all grocery store workers in Newfoundland make less than $15 an hour, so we know the CERB has been about a 20%-plus pay increase during this time period. The question is—