Industry committee  What my brother has just described is exactly what we went through in Dolbeau-Mistassini. These people behave in exactly the same fashion. When they went ahead with the merger, they wanted to take control of the resource. At the plant, they operated in exactly the same manner. Cuts were made one after the other.

Industry committee  All the workers accepted a heavier workload and a reduction in the number of plant workers. As the mayor stated earlier, that meant 100 fewer jobs in the plant, as a means of making it cost-effective. And it worked, because in March of 2009, we were generating revenues of $5 million a month.

Industry committee  AbitibiBowater is comprised of two entities: Abitibi Consolidated Inc. and Bowater Canada Inc. The Abitibi Consolidated Inc. plants were less profitable than the Bowater Canada Inc. plants and had a lower resale value. That's the reason. In the documents we were provided subsequent to the filing of the plan for unsecured creditors, it is mentioned that the settlement for the Bowater division will be 36.5%.

Industry committee  Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I would like to thank the political parties for supporting this process. It's important for the workers. I would like to come back to a point raised by Mr. Paterson. He referred to newsprint when discussing the Dolbeau-Mistassini plant. If he is not aware of this, I would just like to clarify that the Dolbeau-Mistassini plant has not produced newsprint for the last 10 years.