This Government uses COVID every time it suits their agenda when their incompetence is shown and the blame needs to be laid. Poverty: blame COVID; homelessness: blame COVID; inflation: blame COVID. Just today, the Prime Minister said that these are trying times. Grant Robertson said they're extremely challenging times. But from the start of this pandemic, they've kept attacking businesses. Two weeks into it they put the minimum wage up. It's just bizarre. Hard luck—just deal with it: "COVID doesn't matter, you guys. No excuse." And we find out today that Michael Wood wanted a higher minimum wage—just amazing. Let's make the minimum wage $50 an hour and everyone's problems will all be over! The Government must realise that businesses that do survive are doing so in spite of the Government, not because of it. The small business Minister should hang his head in shame. When Business New Zealand refuses to have anything to do with this bill, you'd think it would be cause for some concern.