Thank you, Mr. Fraser, for your question.
What I was speaking about, for the Northwest Territories in particular, is that a wage subsidy for those who got hit during the aurora season is too late, and that's just the way things landed. I don't think anyone could have predicted when it was going to land. In much of our hotel industry and our larger tour operators, those layoffs were immediate, so a wage subsidy doesn't help and they don't have employees.
As we head into summer—and I think I speak for those who are all-summer operators—your very short window is your wage period, but it's not the time, with the flexibility in that program, to help them with wage subsidies. The time to wait for that is too long. Quite frankly, in front of us it doesn't help them, because everybody's cancelling. They don't have any customers, so they can't hire anyone anyway. Some of them have lost their deposits. It's really created a cash flow issue.
It's a chicken-and-egg syndrome: We don't know when things are going to open up, but the people who were travelling are cancelling. The summer season is lost. That is the season for these small operators, probably across the country, not just in the Northwest Territories. It is their revenue for the entire year. By the time you actually look at it, they'll have no revenue to subsidize.