Thank you for that. I appreciate your comments very much. Certainly, from a Canadian Airports Council perspective, the emergency wage subsidy is very helpful, as I mentioned. All except 12 airports, as we understand, qualify because of the municipal consideration. Although we're told by CRA that this measure is still under review, it's excellent.
As for how the wage subsidy applies to each airport authority, it is up to those airport authorities to decide whether they will continue with full employment and compensation of those employees. I do know I am not aware of any airport that has gone to a reduced compensation. As you know well, the subsidy provides, I believe, up to something over $850 a week, and this certainly will compensate additional wages for the employees we have here at the airports today.
At the Halifax airport we employ 5,800 workers, which is the size of the town of Kentville, so we are very much an employment generator in everything we do. Like the other airports, we will continue and ensure we have the employment of all of the sectors that support airports, and the wage subsidy is a big part of that. It allows those employees to continue to be paid, as you say, wages and benefits.
I do worry a lot about the end point of that program and what it means as the businesses start to recover, if it only goes until the end of June.