Thank you very much for that.
I'm going to switch gears now to another thing that was already raised, which is the business of working from home, working remotely.
In many cities in Canada, primarily the provincial capitals, there's a large concentration of public sector employees, including federal employees, who are in part responsible for the health of the SME ecosystem in the downtowns, keeping restaurants busy, galleries open and dry cleaners going. This is evident in Ottawa and evident in my hometown of Halifax. Buildings are sitting empty, and restaurants are sitting half full.
I understand that much of the decision-making on whether or not people are asked to return to work in person is devolved to the regional director level or managerial level, but I want to hear from each of the four offices that are represented today. Is there any centralized program from the top down, not devolved to regional, to get people back—the word on the street is “bums back in seats”—to activate the SMEs?
Maybe I'll just start with IRCC. Is there anything happening centrally?