Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Thank you to the witnesses for being here.
The first question I would like to ask is with regard to border communities. What special programs are there—or are there any—for border communities?
The pandemic was obviously.... It continues to plague border communities. Now we have passport delays, for example, for the exodus of business and with respect to tourism, but it's not returning for us in many sectors here.
What can you say or highlight? What are the plans to deal with that? Clearly there are winners and losers, depending on what industry you are in, but tourism has really been hit hard and will have another difficult summer. What can you provide for small and medium-sized businesses in the tourism sector and other border communities?
Mine, for example, is on a peninsula. We just had to basically grin and bear it all those years. Now it's a little bit open, but it's still a challenge to get those people back.