Thank you for that, and thank you for reminding me about eastern Canada.
It's critical to us. We have 3,200 employees right now, and as you correctly identified, there are over 700 in the east. It's our goal to retain all of them, to keep them intact, to keep their benefits intact and to top up the wage subsidy as well, to keep the employees whole.
In the absence of that, we will have no choice but to look at more layoffs and other measures to try to reduce our costs and mitigate our risks. That's really the last thing we want to do, but there's a lot of uncertainty out there. COVID-19 has had a negative impact on all of our customers, and that comes right through to us.
We need to act, and we need to act now. It's kind of urgent for us right now. We've been holding off, hoping we would get an answer, but we're kind of at the end right now.
It would be a substantial benefit to us.