Finance committee  I can start, Mr. Chair, and then perhaps colleagues would like to add on later. The idea of the CERB was to create an income replacement for people who had stopped working. As the parliamentary secretary indicated, we have since changed it to allow people to earn up to $1,000 so

Finance committee  No. My colleague Evelyn can respond, I think.

Finance committee  Yes.

Finance committee  On the issue of territorial borrowing limits, thank you for raising this. We certainly understand the situation of the north and the specific needs there. There have been—I think I may have mentioned this last time—a number of conversations around borrowing limits. We continue to

Finance committee  While I'm responsible for FP relations in the area of provincial lending, my colleagues in FSP also have something to do with that. I don't know if Soren has anything he wants to add, but I will say that we can bring that back and take a look at it within the department. I don't

Finance committee  The program is administered in conjunction with our colleagues at Employment and Social Development Canada. I gather that you’d like to know whether we’ve calculated the increase in the premium rate. Those calculations are part of our budget discussions. We are reviewing the dat

Finance committee  In the mandate letter, there are two separate things on the CPP. I think you're asking about the enhancement itself?

Finance committee  The enhancement is well under way. Those payments have started to be made. Both of those contributions have started to be made, and there's a phased-in approach to it, as I'm sure you're well aware. There were some additional regulatory pieces that needed to happen in order to en

Finance committee  The risk to...?

Finance committee  I think the thought behind the CPP enhancement was that we really needed to change the way we did the CPP program moving forward, ensuring that we're not using a pay-as-you-go program anymore and that we have a fully funded model that ensures that Canadians will have more money i

Finance committee  Sure. I'll stop there.

Finance committee  We certainly heard some of the concerns from the north about the pressures being faced. We've had a number of conversations with regard to borrowing limits, and specifically, not only with the Northwest Territories but with some of the other territories as well. Those conversatio

Finance committee  With great pleasure. Thank you. On the question of universal pharmacare, that work is ongoing within the Department of Health and the Department of Finance. The question, I think, was specifically about whether or not costing of universal pharmacare itself has taken place. Is

Finance committee  That work is ongoing in terms of discussions with provinces and territories around what pharmacare would and could look like moving forward.

Finance committee  Generally the numbers are made public in December of every year—what the estimates are for the payments for the next fiscal year—and then payments are made on a monthly basis. We transfer dollars monthly into the accounts of the provinces and territories based on the payments tha