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Originally Posted by GordonBlue
well duh.
They didn't have the luxury of time to thoughtfully create well running programs.
It's hard enough for a government to do at the best of times, and the beginning of the pandemic sure wasn't that.
I thought did pretty well in such a short time as many of us needed help immediately.
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BS, it's not like they had to make an instant decision. Even if they only had a couple weeks they had some time to put some thought into it rather than just fire hosing money at everything.
How about some basic safeguards like companies that have hundreds of thousands of dollars in the bank don't qualify for the "free money" CEBA loans?
The loans were run through the banks anyway so it wouldn't be difficult to establish that. I didn't make up the "free money", I heard it from several business owners and my bank manager when I didn't apply for it the second time, as in "are you crazy, it's free money with no strings attached".
Or how about a claw back on CEWS payments for companies that have massive excess profits. That program was so poorly thought out that it didn't help a lot of companies at all while it was a gold mine for others. As it was set up it was a cash cow for any business that are labour based, so much so that it made sense to turn down business to stay under the threshold, get the 75% subsidies and rake in the profits. This of course was not a good thing for employees.
I'm not even going to go into CERB or the rent subsidies.
Even if they didn't get things right at first they could have tweaked the programs in the months following. Nobody was expecting perfection.