Finance committee  I will, just quickly. Yes, it would definitely be a huge benefit. Destination Canada has always been a strong supporter of our product and our particular tourism entities. Yes, we would like to see more of that, and we're very grateful for what Destination Canada is able to bri

Finance committee  Actually, I think there's a very quick solution to this, Wayne, and that is to essentially force people back to work. Turn off the tap from Ottawa. Turn off the deluge, the tsunami of money that is pouring into people's pockets across this country. As my buddy says, man is first

Finance committee  It is absolutely critical to have that plan. As I've said before, we tried to do something in March. Just before opening, we were told that the Manitoba border was closed. We can't bring anything to our staff as far as a plan goes. One day it's this and one day it's that. We hear

Finance committee  Probably about 10% of our clientele are from Canada, while 20% to 30% are from the States, and then the balance are from places like Europe and Asia. Australia also figures pretty heavily in our numbers. We are entirely fly-in, of course. That is one of the things we ran into.

Finance committee  Yes, definitely, that would be a two-prong relief or help, not only for us but also for our airlines, the local airlines that serve our industry and bring that clientele north—in our case, north of Winnipeg—up into remote communities. They operate on a very tight budget as well

Finance committee  Thank you for that, Mr. Fast. I don't see it as really being a solution. I still insist that the only solution that will save us is to let us get back to work, let us re-employ and get our people back on the job and move forward with, as you said, what we do best. We would appre

Finance committee  I think the only way we can expedite that is to establish some sort of rapid testing system that allows travellers to enter the country safely, travel to their destination safely, experience whatever it is they're doing and return down that same pipeline back to their various cou

Finance committee  Yes, it's likewise for us. We are pretty much at the tipping point. It's essentially too late for us. Most of our clientele book 12 to 24 months in advance. We likely won't see any of them this summer. Even if, by some miracle, borders were suddenly opened, we wouldn't see anybod

Finance committee  I think we have always been built by entrepreneurs and people who understand there's no money left in the pot. We get that. We actually don't want it. We want to engage our people, our staff. We want to open and do business. The biggest help would be if government could create wh

Finance committee  Well, there are two. One is perhaps a smaller one. It's in reference to the CEWS program. If we don't have any income and we're paying out to our staff, obviously we're going backwards. If we could reboot that or reshuffle that for businesses such as ours—and there were others me

Finance committee  Sorry; how's that?

Finance committee  Thank you. We are barely surviving, and what we are surviving on is probably similar to many other tourism entities. We're essentially living on money we have borrowed from our clientele. We were quick to retain our deposits that we had collected at the end of 2019, doubting th

Finance committee  Good afternoon, everybody. It's Mike here, with Churchill Wild. I'm the owner-operator of a small business based out of Churchill, Manitoba. We're family owned and we're involved in remote, high-end polar bear ecotourism on the western Hudson Bay coast. This year, 2021, marks o