No, that's not normal and it needs to change. I won't get into the long story, but it's sort of a COVID effect. The way the government set this up was about how many passengers you had flown over the last couple of years. They then took an average and determined who was big and who was little. That doesn't work in a world where nobody flew any airline for pretty much two years, so we need a new way of determining that. We would agree with you that carriers such as Sunwing and Transat should absolutely be included with the others.
The small category was originally intended just for truly small carriers. Let's take Air Creebec for example. It would be unreasonable to put the same burden on them as on a multi-million or multi-billion dollar corporation.
As for the other question, I think Jason can help with that.