Finance committee  With respect to inventory donations, because we are an export market, we cannot donate goods and inventory. We cannot sell to the Canadian domestic market. I can speak for my store. We have been giving all of our inventory away, free, to our essential truck drivers crossing the

Finance committee  We cannot give it in locally. As for the goods that I've given away in my store, I do not have to pay tax and duty on them because I'm giving them away free to a truck driver crossing into the U.S.

Finance committee  My comments are similar to Michael's. We are solely dependent on the border being open. We need vaccines. We need the border to open so that tourism can flow, because we are 100% dependent on a fully opened border. We make all of our money in the summer. It enables us to stay ope

Finance committee  Thank you, and good afternoon. My name is Tania Lee. I'm an owner-operator of a small land border duty-free store in Sarnia, Ontario. We service travellers crossing into Port Huron, Michigan. With me today is Philippe Bachand, a store owner-operator in Philipsburg, Quebec. He is