Thank you, Madam Chair. Yes. Tourism certainly is quite dear to my heart, and I continue to hear about the impacts of COVID-19, specifically the border restrictions on this sector. Madam Chair, it was my goal to have something sort of a little more concrete to be able to get back to Members and out to the public during the course of this session. We still have a few weeks left, so my goal is not quite over yet. We are working quite diligently, I would say, right now, to make sure that whatever programs are put in place for the 2021-2022 year continue to do what we did in 2020-2021, which was to really identify areas that need to be supported from the federal programs or that can be complemented by federal programs or where there are gaps to be filled. We are still waiting to know what the final word might be from the federal government. That is a significant source of money, and it makes sense to me to not compete with it but to use it to its best advantage. Again, we are expecting to have some information back fairly soon from them and are working in the meanwhile to be ready to drop our own plans in conjunction with that, based on that estimation. I know that is not a lot of specifics, Madam Chair. I am trying to give as much as I can with where we are at, but I very much want this to be a planned approach and not just sort of bits here and there. That is why I am holding back a little bit on where I can go. I will certainly commit to getting the plan out. I just do not know when that is going to be. Thanks, Madam Chair.
Caroline Wawzonek on Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters
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