Finance committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. Timing is critical. We're one month after the budget, and we don't really know much more about the hiring credit. When I'm doing my calculations, I have to take the most favourable view of how it may work. With regard to the wage subsidy and the rent subsi

Finance committee  I certainly can't comment on that specifically, but I can say that with what we know now, we do not see meaningful improvement in tourism results over the next few months. Our need for assistance remains. From my point of view, and as a business owner just trying to welcome peo

Finance committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. Thank you, Mr. Fraser, for the question. I certainly want to recognize the efforts of my staff in making last season a relative success for us. We couldn't have asked for a better response from them and, ultimately, from our customers. Look, I think that'

Finance committee  Certainly. Our most obvious comparison in the amusement industry, and probably the largest component of it, is next door in the United States where there's been a whole different approach to COVID-19 and how it's been managed. Some of those parks remained open through most of thi

Finance committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. Thank you, Mr. Cumming, for your question. I participated in a chamber of commerce video here five years ago promoting entrepreneurship, where I said that it's not realistic for us all to work for the government. I didn't realize that five years later that

Finance committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair, for the opportunity to be here today. Together with my three brothers, we own and operate a number of tourism attractions in Prince Edward Island and New Brunswick. They are amusement parks and water parks. As you can imagine, COVID-19 has been devastating