Thank you very much, and through the chair, happy birthday to you.
The impact that this will have is that it will keep doors open. It will keep businesses alive. It will keep people employed. We are looking at a number of businesses, a large swath of businesses, that did not have a great summer as far as revenues are concerned. In fact, this is the second summer that hasn't been good.
We're also looking at businesses in a sector that has been shut down until only recently, and it's one that takes a long time to come back. That's the business events sector. Getting back together, meeting in person, returning to the office and getting those business functions back up and going are the kinds of things that support a lot of our businesses in the shoulder seasons. A lot of those events are not taking place.
Just to give you an example, 3,451 business events took place across Canada in 2019. There were 451 events in 2020, and those 451 took place in the months of January to March, before the pandemic hit our shores. Since then, until about September of this year, that industry has been dark. The lack of revenue and the ongoing low bookings mean we could see an absolutely large layoff of staff and a permanent closure of businesses, which is something we don't want to see.