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\"PhotoM<\/span>occasin Trails\u2019 Business Achievement Award must seem like ancient history to co-owners Greg Hopf and Frank Antoine. Part of the fastest-growing segment of the Canadian travel industry, the two-year-old small business was earning more than $15,000 a month when it won the All Nations Trust Co.\u2019s 2019 Tourism Award for its guided canoe trips through British Columbia\u2019s Secwepemc Nation.<\/p>\n

Now, less than six months later, \u201ccancellations continue, with no end in sight,\u201d Hopf says. \u201cAt this pace, we may lose not only our business, but our homes and livelihood.\u201d<\/p>\n

This kind of bleakness blankets recent feedback collected by the Indigenous Tourism Association of Canada (ITAC), which is joining many of its 700 members in calling on the federal government to make COVID-19 assistance programs more accessible to Indigenous ventures. While the pandemic is causing unprecedented strife across the tourism industry, the suffering of Canada\u2019s once-booming Indigenous operations \u2013 which accounted for nearly $2-billion in revenue last year, according to ITAC \u2013 appears especially acute.<\/p>\n

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\u201cWe\u2019re not asking for special treatment,\u201d says ITAC president and CEO Keith Henry, who explains that Indigenous operations face pandemic-related challenges others don\u2019t. For one thing, most of the 500-plus startups that have opened over the past five years are family-run seasonal businesses that don\u2019t qualify for the federal Business Credit Availability Program (BCAP), which will provide up to $65-billion in financial support to Canadian businesses, because they have yet to show profits, payroll expenses or revenue losses stemming from COVID-19. And as Hopf points out, \u201cWe cannot lay off staff, because we are the staff.\u201d<\/p>\n

This is an excerpt from an article by Adam Bisby, originally published on The Globe And Mail<\/a><\/em>.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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