Thank you for that.
My next question is for the Tourism Association of P.E.I. I listened with interest to how much the CEWS and CERS have supported your industry. It's the same in the north. The backbone of our economy is mining, but tourism was a growing industry, and we had companies and operators popping up. Every year we were seeing more and more of them. Now that a number of them have reduced their operations, it's really hurting the rest of the population. The closure of a tourism business really has a spin-off effect in the hospitality sector, for sure, but it does in other areas, too.
In the north we've been trying to look at doing things differently. Most of the people in the north have had their second vaccine, so there are a number of exemptions that are being made for ecotourism for people who are operating in very remote areas. Sport hunters and ecotourist operators are allowed to bring in people. It seems to be helping a good percentage of our operators, but it still doesn't help everybody.
Yukon, for example, has now lifted a restriction so that anybody coming to Yukon who has had both their vaccines doesn't have to self-isolate; they can travel back and forth, and that means a lot more travel within the territories.
If people with both vaccine shots were able to travel freely within our country, within Canada, how much would that help your industry when it comes to enough businesses staying afloat?