Mr. Chair, I thank the Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Tourism and Associate Minister of Finance for the very kind question.
I see that the member of Parliament for Winnipeg South is there even with his hand up, and I have to say that he was the moderator of a very moving and important conversation at a Zoom town hall that we held across the west with the Minister of Foreign Affairs, the Deputy Prime Minister, the Minister of Emergency Preparedness and the MP for Winnipeg South Centre. We had 500 people in that Zoom meeting. With 130-some years of waves of immigrants from Ukraine, that means that if one is in the west, they probably eat pedaheh and holubtsi. I go to French Canadian weddings and I can tell members that Ukrainian food is a staple. It is because we are all knitted together.
The community is nervous. It is frightened. It is afraid for the people and family they have in Ukraine. They have asked us to stay very close to what the Ukrainian government has asked us to do. That is why, in maybe a historic amount of time, our government was able to deliver a $120-million loan, and I thank the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs for that.
We are going to watch the situation carefully. We are going to stay very closely connected to community leaders, like the Ukrainian Canadian Congress, both here in Edmonton and Calgary, in Alberta, across the west and across the country.