Human Resources committee  As we get into the return to work, the greatest challenge is in industries where there simply is going to be a change in reality, whether it is tourism, professional sports or other related industries. I think we need to develop a longer-run strategy to help folks in those indust

Human Resources committee  Back in the initial stages of the crisis, there was a lot of very vigorous and productive debate, I thought, about how to provide income support to Canadians. There were two important criteria, I think. One was for something that we could do quickly. Another one was for a progr

Human Resources committee  For the initial phase of the crisis, the idea of freezing the economy or pressing pause so that we could push down the curve and understand a bit more about what this virus was doing was, I think, tremendously important. We've seen in almost all provinces that we've had really go

Human Resources committee  That's my understanding. Because of the administrative complexities of trying to figure out whom to send a cheque to, it was actually faster to do it the way they did, with the CERB rather than the alternative.

Human Resources committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair, for the invitation to appear. My comments today will be focused on the Canada emergency response benefit, the CERB. The CERB was designed to sustain Canadian families as we put much of the economy on pause. The CERB helped to support millions of Canadian f