Madam Chair, from top-notch services to incredible retail stores to the restaurants that provide us with our favourite meal, small businesses make our communities vibrant. These are the entrepreneurs who sponsor our local sports teams and help keep people employed.
Throughout the pandemic, I have been listening to the feedback from the businesses across Dartmouth—Cole Harbour. Not a business out there has not commented that the supports our government has provided through COVID-19 have helped them keep people employed and helped them keep the lights on.
I would ask the Minister of Tourism how we are going to continue to look after these very important businesses, and how we are going to continue, in the face of possible new variants, to take care of them?