As I stated earlier, we foresee a loss of between 60 and 80 permanent jobs, of the 700 members who work at the tax centre. We have about 524 permanent employees who work at the tax centre, and we're staffed to capacity. For our programs that run during income tax time, we also have contract workers—between 200 to 300 people—who come in and work on a less-than-year-round basis.
If these permanent jobs are lost in the visitor rebate program, those people will move into other operational streams of the Summerside Tax Centre. What that could mean is that there could be 200 people unemployed in Summerside. The impact is huge for our area.
Thank you.