Thank you, member, for the question.
I think we have to look at Jasper as a very unique experience in the sense that their full economy is focused on tourism. We had CN in there as well, but CN is now leaving, so their whole economy is a tourist economy.
In other jurisdictions where we've seen these fires, there's always been another, supplementary economy. Fort McMurray had oil and gas. Slave Lake had forestry. Jasper does not. What we've heard from the people of Jasper is that they lost their biggest earning potential during the time the fire was happening and then after the fire. Because of that, it's almost similar to COVID. All of a sudden, they lost every potential they had to generate any type of wealth to carry them through the off-season.
What I would like to see is the province and the federal government have a conversation about what an economic recovery model would look like, similar to how we treated COVID. These businesses need to thrive. If they fail, it won't matter if we get tourists to go back to Jasper because there will be no businesses that can operate.
We need to find a way to help them move through this gap and this period of time and make sure that they are able to have some kind of financial security, so they're viable over the next 18 months.