e-2717 (Business and trade)
- Keywords
- Canada Emergency Commercial Rent Assistance
- COVID-19
- Pandemic
- Rent
- Small and medium-sized enterprises
Original language of petition: English
Petition to the Government of Canada
- Sushi Ebenezer represents one of many restaurants who is owned by a business owner ineligible for the Canadian Emergency Commercial Rent Assistance (CERCA) merely due to the fact that the place of business is a government building (City of Maple Ridge Business Center) and the landlord falls under the jurisdiction of the government (City of Maple Ridge) thus disqualifying a hard-working taxpayer of government assistance; and
- This has resulted in a great loss of wages as the business owner, Sally Kang, who has stopped all business operations on good faith due to COVID-19 and due to the fact that the government of Canada wanted people to self-isolate to flatten the curve. Her story is in the newspaper article “Maple Ridge Business Owner Ineligible for Emergency Rent Assistance Because of Location” published by Maple Ridge-Pitt Meadows News on June 22, 2020.
- Open for signature
- July 15, 2020, at 3:02 p.m. (EDT)
- Closed for signature
- August 14, 2020, at 3:02 p.m. (EDT)