Finance committee  At the time, and I believe the Prime Minister spoke to this when he appeared before committee earlier, he believed that the option for administering the program might be the Canada Service Corps, which he'd long been looking at and working on. He was, I think, a bit disappointed

Finance committee  That is not true.

Finance committee  That is not true.

Finance committee  I would just add that May 5—to add to the things that happened on May 5—was also the day that this proposal went to the COVID cabinet committee. It's possible officials were in touch with them in and around that, but I can't speak to that. What I can speak to is what I know, whi

Finance committee  Yes. I'm not entirely certain of the date, but I believe it would have been in early March—it might have been as early as late February, but I believe it was early March—that the Prime Minister struck a cabinet committee that we refer to as the COVID cabinet committee, which Depu

Finance committee  They are.

Finance committee  I am not sure how many exactly, and I don't want to guess, but there have been, as I mentioned, the Canada emergency wage benefit, the CERB, the programs for seniors, vaccine development, the manufacturing sector and bio-manufacturing. It's an endless number of programs. This is

Finance committee  Yes. I already stated that.

Finance committee  I'm here on behalf of my staff—

Finance committee  —and I'm happy to answer any questions you might have for them.

Finance committee  Is there a question you have for them?

Finance committee  So you don't have a question for them—

Finance committee  —but you would just like their name?

Finance committee  It was our director of policy, Rick Theis, a very long-time, hard-working political staffer in this town.

Finance committee  No. As I previously stated, there was a handful in total—