Yes, thank you, Madam Chair. I guess just stepping back, a number of jurisdictions have provided rebates for staycations where if you go on, you know, a staycation in the territory, you send in your receipts and the government gives you a 20 percent or some percent rebate. And the reason I like this model is it encourages tourism within the territory; it encourages, you know, some competition to still remain in the market so that we're not just subsidizing people who have essentially shuttered their doors to a break-even point. It allows operators to actually exist with some revenue. And I guess my preference would be that of, you know, the $5.7 million of our own money, we would have distributed it in that way that actually caused people to, you know, go experience tourism operators. Can I just get a sense of whether the department has considered that model? Thank you, Madam Chair.
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