Thank you, Chair, and thank you to the witnesses.
This question goes to Ms. Demarcke and Mr. Paquet. It relates to tourism, obviously.
The Australian government recently put in place a spending measure intended to help areas of Australia that rely on tourism—around a dozen areas in the country. The way they're doing it is that they have $1 billion earmarked specifically to help reduce—in half, in fact—travel fares, so 800,000 Australians would have the ability to travel at half the price because of this subsidy.
I wonder how that might apply to Canada. [Technical difficulty—Editor] don't want to encourage travel now, but when it is safe to do so, do you think this is something that...? When I say “when it is safe to do so”, I mean when Canadians have received the vaccine and we see infection rates decline very dramatically. Do you think this is a way to help areas of the country that rely on [Technical difficulty—Editor] that the Canadian government should look at pursuing?
Ms. Demarcke, we can begin with you if you wish, and then maybe wrap it up with Mr. Paquet.