The easiest way to explain that is to take, for example, our business. We would normally employ between 200 and 235 ski instructors pre-COVID and 50% of those would be on working holiday visas, whether they be from Australia, New Zealand or Europe.
We teach what is called a gap program, so we bring people from the Netherlands and the U.K. in to learn how to become ski instructors and then they're available for us to sell a ski lesson to school children, to families and to guests who visit our resort.
The pandemic cut all of that out. This year we had just over 60 instructors and we lost millions in revenue in the ski school alone. You now push that out into the restaurant industry. We had vice-presidents making beds this year. Normally we would employ over 200 housekeepers. The best we had was 44. That's at Big White.
If you go to Whistler, which is one of the biggest economic engines in the tourism industry in Canada, with millions of dollars a day in taxable revenue, they were short 4,000 employees. They're looking at being short 5,000 employees for this summer alone.
With 5.2% unemployment in Canada, these people are not readily available. What we're suggesting is to go back to the good times of 2010 when we invited people to come to work as part of the Olympic program. Those visa holders helped us support our tourism industry.