Industry committee  The good news is that we have started to see some uptake in our resort hotels this summer, but those hotels are operating at half-capacity. For example, I'm at the Château Montebello today and it is running at 48% occupancy, so that is its maximum. All of our urban hotels are re

Industry committee  It actually is fairly consistent across the country. It's just bad everywhere. Unless you're in a resort community, it's bad. Everyone is running a loss. I can certainly provide the committee with a more detailed breakdown, if you'd like to see those numbers. I'd be very happy t

Industry committee  The two key issues that we're dealing with in terms of survival for the hotel sector right now are access to liquidity and our employment issues, so I guess the short answer is not really. There's been one loan program in Quebec, but it's nowhere near the kind of liquidity we wou

Industry committee  Thank you very much. Madam Chair and members of the committee, thank you for the invitation to testify today. The hotel industry represents more than 8,000 hotels, motels and resorts. We employ more than 300,000 Canadians. We play an essential role in the Canadian economy, and