Madam Speaker, I would like to thank the hon. member from the Bloc Québécois for raising the issue of small and medium-sized businesses. I myself have been a small business owner in my constituency for the last 25-some years, and I totally understand the needs of small businesses.
Our government introduced the $40,000 bank loans and gave a 75% wage subsidy to employers. Those programs have helped small businesses survive. We have also extended the emergency wage subsidy program to the summer of 2021 to help employers retain employees and bring those one million people back into the workforce.