Thank you.
Honourable Chair and committee members, I accept the criticism on data collection. Bluntly, if we were going to do this all over again, we would have collected more data at the front end and less at the end, right? We would have collected more up front.
Our approach was about just being quick and easy for people. That was our approach, but it led to the situation we're in now, and I accept that criticism. On that part, we would do it differently in a similar situation.
Just to explain the “partly agreed”, it relates to setting targets for this kind of program, so please understand that my comment is not about setting targets in general. There are often programs.... We talked earlier about the importance of getting the number of indigenous-owned businesses up in general. There are places where targets make sense, but for an emergency backstop program, if we had tried up front to ration the program, we would have had to get it right, because if you ration the program, it means that money is not available for people who don't meet however you've rationed it.
I don't know if that made sense, but the point is—