We asked our YMCAs specifically about what they needed. Imagine Canada has its own economists and runs its numbers, which is why a subset of us, including the Boys and Girls Club and the United Way, talked about what national federations need in order to survive the pandemic.
We have about 30,000 staff. We laid off 20,000 staff at the start of the pandemic. With the wage subsidy, we've hired back about 40% of them. The reason the uptake has been slow is the attestation requirement. It makes our chief financial officers and finance people anxious about the numbers and the complexity of applying.
There's also the fact that there is still no revenue coming in. Our child care facilities for the most part are not open, and our fitness facilities and community centres are not open. We still have overhead: overhead of all those facilities, overhead of the rent. The rent control measures aren't meeting the needs the YMCAs have. They may be meeting other needs, but they aren't meeting the needs we have.
This is about the ability to have facilities coming out of the pandemic. There are still costs. Even when there's no revenue coming in, there are still costs to operate this infrastructure. That's what's not being addressed. That's what sector stabilization is needed for.
You asked about a time frame. We asked our YMCAs what this looks like and what they need. The three-month number was $42 million for the network of 1,700 locations, and the six-month number was double that. Now that there are no summer camps, that challenge is going to be even harder moving forward.