Finance committee  Thank you for that, and thank you for reminding me about eastern Canada. It's critical to us. We have 3,200 employees right now, and as you correctly identified, there are over 700 in the east. It's our goal to retain all of them, to keep them intact, to keep their benefits inta

Finance committee  As I explained, we meet all the qualifications for the program except for the fact that we expanded through an asset purchase of another company. That precludes us from qualifying. As I mentioned earlier, it is maybe an unintended consequence, but it should make no difference, wh

Finance committee  Thank you for the question. We've been working with them since mid-April, mostly through associations that have been representing not only us but other companies as well. We've also had direct contact. The problem seems to be acknowledged—there seems to be an acknowledgement the

Finance committee  Thank you very much, Chair. Thank you to the committee for taking the time to meet with us today and to listen to us talk a little bit about Brandt and about the wage subsidy program and some of the issues we're having. Perhaps it's beneficial to give a quick overview of Brand