Thank you so much for inviting me to this meeting. I really appreciate being here.
I appreciate so much what the government is doing for us as owners of small businesses. It's a big support. In the last month and a half, we have been in a big depression on both the personal side and the business side. When you go home, you don't want to talk to anyone. When you go to work, there is no job, there is no work and there are no customers and no money. Slowly the federal government started coming up with a plan to help small businesses, starting with paying a percentage for the employees working for us, up from 10% to 75%, and with grants, and the territorial government as well is giving us loans, along with the federal government.
What we need is to be afloat, and to be afloat until this pandemic is over. With the support of the federal government and the [Technical difficulty—Editor] here in the Northwest Territories, everybody is doing their job. Thank you as well to our MP, Michael McLeod, for his hard work and dedication.
Thank you, everyone. We'll keep going.