Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Thank you to the witnesses today.
I have some questions for the Auditor General.
Thank you for your work on this report. The recommendations you bring forward are quite useful, but I'd like to focus on the context in which the CEBA program was developed.
You note that the government was able to quickly deliver loans to small businesses, but I read few mentions of the fact that the program was developed during the pandemic.
Could you expand on how difficult it would have been to develop and launch a program of this scale less than two weeks after the country was locked down?