Industry committee  Hello, everyone. Thank you for inviting me to speak to the committee today. I'd like to acknowledge that I'm joining you from the traditional territories of the Coast Salish peoples today—the Squamish, Tsleil-Waututh and Musqueam nations. I'll be providing today's remarks prim

Industry committee  Thank you for your question. Yes, we've been developing strategies throughout the period of what we call immediate response and relief and are looking forward to the recovery and resilience phases of reigniting our sector. We've been providing a lot of research and sector intell

Industry committee  Like all sectors, we are currently working on specific initiatives that will enable tourism here, domestically and internationally. It's Destination Canada's role to ensure that we have strategies that address all market conditions. Certainly, the current ones are extremely chall

Industry committee  I think that most elements in our sector are looking for innovative solutions to try to reopen the borders in the safest possible way. Where there are opportunities for testing different approaches, I believe the health authorities and government are examining all of those. We

Industry committee  We work with the appropriations that we are provided. We make the best possible use of those in the markets where we feel there's the most opportunity. At this time we do not have any insight into changes to our budget. We feel that we can do good work with the appropriation th

Industry committee  Well, these are policy decisions that Destination Canada has an opportunity to contribute its thinking toward. We do not make the decisions. However, I know that many of our sector associations, some of whom I believe appeared before this committee earlier, have made representat

Industry committee  Sorry. I did not receive any interpretation for that question. I'm very sorry.

Industry committee  I am currently on what's called “Off”, which I believe to be the floor.

Industry committee  Oh.

Industry committee  I'm sorry.

Industry committee  Thank you for your question. Certainly, there have been a wide variety of programs that have been very beneficial to the tourism industry, with everything from the emergency wage subsidy, which has really allowed many businesses across the country to remain open and strive to b

Industry committee  You're quite correct, in that liquidity remains the number one challenge that tourism businesses are facing in the coming months. A lack of cash flow and the need to cover fixed costs is really the driving force behind the current challenges. I know that industry associations suc

Industry committee  This has certainly been a topic of great interest as we've seen communities reopen and welcome visitors. Certainly, the concerns of indigenous communities across our nation have been ones that everyone is trying to be extremely sensitive to, and those concerns extend as well to a

Industry committee  We're in constant discussion with our ministry about the needs of our industry. Currently, we're in the throes of developing our corporate plans and budget needs for the future. Since those are still within government for consideration, there's not much that I'm able to share at

Industry committee  Certainly, as Canadians, we all have the opportunity to demonstrate by our own behaviours that travel can be done safely. In each part of the country, the health advisories are a little bit different, so we take the opportunities where we can. We very much have an opportunity dom