At that time, that was actually a misquote. We were well over $500,000 behind the eight ball at that time.
I think it's more than that. People wanted to do the right thing. It was a time when all of the distillers I talked to across Canada were just so overwhelmingly happy. They were getting supported by the community, just like my colleague said. We had people donating labels. That was a cost on top of all the donations that people were doing. They just really wanted to keep their staff working and doing the right thing. If we had told our staff that we weren't going to pay them, I bet half of them would have come in, because we had nurses and doctors lining up, crying with thanks and gratitude at picking up their sanitizer. It was the best of times for that pride in what we do.
There's no doubt it's a financial hit. I think we're going to see this for years to come. Our whisky stocks [Technical difficulty—Editor]. We have hundreds of barrels of whisky that will never be born because of this. That's going to affect our family distillery and all these other distilleries for really the next five, 10 or 15 years.
That's why I'm hoping we can work with the government to come up with the same excise strategy that promotes jobs and helps the industry become more robust moving forward.