We would have to have financial assistance of various kinds, loan guarantees. Is it possible to get assistance when... You are a government and you administer public money. For example, our project would create 300 very well-paid jobs. There would be payback, as the jargon goes. It would employ 300 people who at present have no income on which to pay taxes. And those are just the direct jobs. In the pulp and paper industry, we can certainly set a cost of at least $100,000 per job. Obviously, that is going to turn the economy around and there will be payback. Is it possible to get assistance for recovery projects?
I make a big distinction between a subsidy to keep on doing what was done wrong in recent years and a plan for the future with new markets. We have done this by ourselves, which is why it took five years, with no help from anyone, or with very little help. I can tell you that we have almost succeeded, but we still need government support.
The auto industry has been given extraordinary, exemplary assistance. Did anyone say that the auto industry would not get help because Pontiac was going to close down, there are too many brands of cars on the market, and there's global competition? No. They said they were going to give that industry assistance, because it has a future—or so I presume.
In Quebec and Canada, the forest industry and the pulp and paper industry have helped to build Canada, but forestry today is still an industry for the future. Things have to be done differently from now on, but there is a future. We have to invest a lot more than has been done. There is about $170 million coming from the federal government. For the Lebel-sur-Quévillon project alone, we're talking about $200 million.