In all sincerity, I'm a bit skeptical.
When we see how things are going in the new technologies industry, whether for video games or artificial intelligence, for example, we see that businesses are competing among themselves to try to get the best talent everywhere in Canada, and even outside Canada, because there are no young people available in this field. It will be extremely difficult for businesses to get people, particularly with the money you are putting on the table for hiring them. It doesn't even give them 10 weeks' salary. That is not going to change the world.
In addition, the question of French in relation to this program is essential to me. I would also like us to be informed about the technical details of the program. At some point, we will have an information session.
Over the last two years, we have created websites and services for businesses because, with COVID-19, people did not have the choice of going online to sell their products. We helped dozens of businesses, with no subsidies. People invested in this because the government and all the government's partners, including the opposition parties, gave people and businesses money during COVID-19 to survive. We provided guidance for them in implementing those measures and people reinvested in this. So businesses still have a lot of money because of the subsidies you gave them.
So what need was there to spend $4 billion, borrowed dollars at that, need I repeat, to enable businesses to make the switch to digital, when it was already possible to do it with no subsidy?