Well, there are two. One is perhaps a smaller one. It's in reference to the CEWS program. If we don't have any income and we're paying out to our staff, obviously we're going backwards. If we could reboot that or reshuffle that for businesses such as ours—and there were others mentioned on the panel—and it could be rejigged, so to speak, to offer a 100% wage subsidy for businesses that have 90%-plus revenue losses year after year here, that would certainly be a help, absolutely. Then we could engage with our employees, who are critical to the reopening.
It's actually almost one of our biggest fears: Where will our employees be when we get a chance to start again? We're totally dependent on good staff, as are all of us in business. I don't know the metrics of it, but I would think there's a way to simply rejig this or realign this so that it works for people like us, businesses like ours that are suffering such huge losses.
The other thing would be if there's a potential to expedite a safe reopening of tourism destinations such as ours right now. Is there a way to do that?
Just backing up a bit, there was much-needed priority given to vaccines for exactly our northern communities and our first nations communities, so most of these people have now been vaccinated and essentially are safe, so to speak. If we could ensure rapid-testing points at departures, airports, gateway cities, key travel points along the way, we should be able to safely move visitors along that pipeline into remote communities that have all been vaccinated and essentially provide that service that they are more than willing to pay for and have paid deposits on.
Just briefly, I would like to pass on to Mr. McLeod, who is from the NWT, that I've just recently heard that the Northwest Territories is allowing for remote tourism activities under certain guidelines. I'm not sure if that's correct, but we are hearing that. That would be one way to do it. Give us an opportunity to create some sort of avenue so that visitors can come once again.