Thank you for your question.
There are a lot of different variables we deal with in extreme weather. In the event of the hurricanes that flattened all the woodland and that type of thing, it makes me wonder where the next growth is going to be and whether there will be any kind of a wood industry left in a number of years.
Going back in history in other provinces, in the 1800s the Miramachi in New Brunswick had a great fire. Since that time it's grown up again, and they have a lumber industry.
What we require is the availability of people and youth. We have trade barriers between our provinces in all respects, including for something as simple as not being able to bring beer from one province to another. Red Seal mechanics, nurses and members of all professions cannot go from one province to another to supply the same service without going through a tremendous amount of retraining. It makes me wonder what we've done. I think we've done things to protect ourselves, and now it's time to take a look at how to keep ourselves from—and I don't want to say this—starving to death. That sounds pretty cruel, but everything to do with protectionism needs to be looked at.
Really, it goes back to cleaning up this land that's been devastated. First of all, we were very fortunate last summer that we had all the rain we did, because with all those trees lying down, we didn't have massive forest fires. If that continues, in another year or so it won't be nearly as dangerous for fire because the wood will start to decay. It will be wet and damp and not support flame as well.
Going back, we need to take a look at all policies so that our industries can grow, whether looking at issues of health care and the shortage of nurses or technicians, engineers, and all types of people.