I want to get to the...especially in relation to partial disagreement, because I note from your opening remarks that it is a source of frustration.
I do want to say, though, that the $49.1 billion that was rolled out and the $45.6 billion that went to recipients who were deemed eligible on your assessment, in the words of the opposition leader, were “big, fat government programs”, and we should have just been cutting red tape and cutting taxes for small businesses that had no customers. I can think of many small businesses in my riding that would not exist today if it weren't for a program like this.
I do worry that a program like this gets politicized such that people say that it shouldn't have happened and that it should never have existed. I just heard allegations of corruption before we even got into it, as if this were worse than ArriveCAN.
I want to get to your frustration, because on my reading of it, I was a bit confused. EDC says it has partially agreed, and then Finance agreed with your assessment. What do you make of that?