Thank you, Mr. Epp.
First of all, I'm a Blue Jays fan, and after that last game, we still have to apologize. It didn't work out so well.
Thank you for your work. We've seen highly industrialized areas, and also agriculture. We had to work back. We've been doing those things, but our connections to the United States, as you mentioned, are so imperative. It's been hard over the last number of years. We have family members. I'm not sure people are aware of the connections. You almost have to experience it. The area that's next to this in my riding goes through a lot. There are 40,000 cars and 10,000 trucks per day that go through right next to Sandwich Town, and half of that traffic is family, friends, businesses and colleagues. We really suffered.
With regard to the western hemisphere travel initiative, that was when the U.S. first introduced passports. A lot of U.S. citizens didn't want to get passports. A lot of U.S. citizens haven't come because of other issues, and this is a way of bringing some of them back.
It's also economics. We know that the tool and die and the trade industries, when they go back and forth, get us contracts. We get developments and we get all kinds of synergies, so if we miss out on those, it would be awful.
We even had tours before COVID for people to come for the Underground Railroad to find where their relatives ended up, because many of them fled the United States to come to Canada, and there were a number of tourism initiatives just to deal with that.