Thank you, Mr. Chair.
If Ms. Symonds is still on, I want to express, again, how sorry I am that this isn't working. We'll try to reach out to her and talk to her a bit more, maybe outside of the meeting.
I will ask questions of Ms. Potter.
I represent an area called Parry Sound—Muskoka. You may have heard of it before. It has a fairly significant tourism industry. The cyclical nature of the industry is something I've known all my life. It's something you grow up with in that region. Your comments about it ring true.
You talked a lot about the EI program, which I know this is largely about. However, I'm wondering if you could speak about the struggles that folks in the tourism industry are dealing with in relation to the general cost of living right now—the cost of food and the affordability crisis we're seeing across the country.
Can you speak about the industry, and the impacts this has on workers in the industry?