Earlier this month, I announced emergency measures, including wage subsidies and leave payments, to help businesses stay afloat and keep people in jobs. We want businesses to get the full extent of that support we are providing. So an Order in Council was made to ensure that wage subsidies and leave payments would not incur GST as they would in the normal course of events. This order applied from 24 March 2020. However, the wage subsidy and leave payments have been paid out from 17 March 2020. To ensure fairness and consistency of treatment, the bill proposes that GST not apply to payments of the COVID-19 wage subsidy and leave payments from 17 March until the date in 2020 that the amendment order came into force.