I think we were happy to see the Destination Canada funding. I think it's important to have that component, but you're right. What will we have, and what's the supply chain left that really gets through and survives this pandemic? The $500 million, again, sounds great, but when you're spreading it across the country, how will that be allocated? In Prince Edward Island, for example, tourism is a huge industry. How that money will be allocated throughout the provinces and throughout each of the regions is a question that we have.
We heard about the Canada recovery hiring program. I don't know all the details of that, but for a seasonal industry, I don't know whether that will benefit us as much as it may some of the other sectors. I think we were hoping the wage subsidy wouldn't be on that declining scale. I think that was a big disappointment for us.
I've talked to a number of our operators who were saying that we're really not out of this pandemic yet. We're facing the third wave, and again, Atlantic Canada has been relatively safe in comparison to some of the other areas, but we're not out of this either. We still have a lot of restrictions in place, and if our operators are seeing a 60%, 70% and 80% decline in their businesses, and that wage subsidy is down to maybe 20% as opposed to the 75% that we were seeing before, a lot of our operators are contemplating not opening again this year.