It's a very simple thing. If you don't get the people, we don't have the need for the hotels. If you don't have the people in the hotels to serve the greater influx of people coming into Canada.... The two are not mutually exclusive, but in truth, they are. What we need to do is minimize the access problems and expedite the labour issue, because if we have one without the other, we don't have an industry.
I have one other point, and then, Randy, maybe you can answer. How do you promote Canada, a country that's five and a half time zones wide and is really 12 or 13 little countries artificially joined together, to put it bluntly, when we have issues in various parts of the country?
One of the best things I've ever seen anywhere is that you promote gateways. Call it “Welcome to Canada”. If we promote the gateways, then the people in Mr. Brison's riding who are close to yours in Halifax are going to jump up and down and say, “What about Halifax?”, or “What about Winnipeg?”, or “What about up in the Muskokas?”, or whatever.
If you think back to when we were all 20 or 30 years younger—I'm speaking for myself now—what did you think about Britain? Well, you knew that in Britain there was a place called London. When you went there, you went to Westminster and St. Paul's. Then you got there, and you found out that it was really expensive, and you decided to go up to Stratford, or you travelled around.
You have to get the people into the country first, and the method for doing that most effectively is through gateways. That's the solution. But the problem is we're dealing with 10 or 11 provincial governments that all want to promote themselves. The people of Ontario are not going to want to promote Vancouver—let's be honest here—and it's exacerbated by that. The gateways are always great ways to get people into the country.