Thank you, Mr. Chair.
I want to thank all the witnesses for being here today and for all the great diversity of views that are being brought forward.
I want to start my questions with Ms. Potter, who is in a very familiar place for me, in the ancestral unceded territories of the Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh peoples.
The average hotel rate right now in Vancouver is $346 a night. That is not the top, but the average. In your pre-budget submission and in your opening statement, you recommended that a tax credit program be put forward to help invest in tourism-related infrastructure. I was hoping you could explain to the committee why the Tourism Industry Association of Canada sees that as necessary and the type of benefits that you foresee in that type of a mechanism being brought forward.