Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Thank you to all the witnesses for your hard work. I really appreciate seeing so many of you here trying to fight for workers and for those small businesses. It's something that New Democrats have been focused on since the beginning of the pandemic and that we're also going to focus on today.
Mr. Ladner and Ms. Benham, I really appreciated your testimony. You talked about the inflexibility of the programs the government has rolled out. Many people have been left out. We know that start-ups still have been left out, and some of them are in their third wave. They haven't gotten any help whatsoever. They're going out of business. Campgrounds, for example, can't get a lot of the programs because of the seasonality. The rent program was obviously flawed in design. We kicked and screamed to get them to fix it. Finally they fixed it, but they still won't backdate it to April 1. Those people are carrying debt and have been left out.
Can you talk about what needs to happen in terms of fixing these broken, flawed programs, and how this is impacting small businesses in every riding in this country?