Thank you, Madam Chair.
Minister, thank you very much for being here with us today.
This study revealed the hardships that women experience. It is neither simple nor easy. I’d like to talk about the deadline for repaying the Canada Emergency Business Account, or CEBA, and the consequences it may have.
As you know, the Bloc Québécois put tremendous emphasis on this file. We would have liked to see another extension of the January 18 deadline. We are seeing the consequences now. The Canadian Federation of Independent Business, or CFIB, reacted this week to the issue of businesses in trouble. The file is not closed, Minister.
I would therefore like to know about the impact of the CEBA repayment deadline on entrepreneurs. Did you measure the impact? We are realizing that many of these struggling small businesses are women-owned.
I will give you an example, but first I would like to know if you measured the consequences that the CEBA repayment deadline will have on women-owned businesses.