There are a lot of elements built into your question. Just as a point of clarification, in the industry itself, about 30 to 35% would be youth. That's up to 35%. The rest are older and look like most of the general population.
To your point, yes, the inflationary pressures and other dynamics around that have certainly impacted what's happening in the sector. The protracted recovery from the pandemic is still very much impacting the industry itself. Many of these businesses are micro and small businesses, with very tight cash flows and very limited revenue or profit margins. As a result, they are trying to do hiring incrementally, but they're limited in the scope at which they can do so, despite the demand for their services.
Even this past summer—to give you an example—20% of the rooms in hotels across Canada were simply not made available because they did not have staff to serve those rooms. Similarly with restaurants, the number of hours was reduced by 20% to 40%, and many restaurants were closed.
So the story goes in every case. The economic situation is really an impairment today to their bringing people back.
One program that is helping illustrate how much of a difference it can make is a government-funded program helping to subsidize student employment in summer periods. That program, the take-up on that, is in high demand. Again, I think it's an indicator of one of those stressors that you referred to.