I can, and I took off my pink sweater so that I could actually present in a more respectful set of circumstances to you. I'm very conscious of bullying and I have watched it exerted by these organizations that have been funded by money from outside the country, in most cases.
I've seen it happen in the forest communities of British Columbia, and particularly on Vancouver Island in areas such as Ucluelet and Tofino on the west coast, and areas around Campbell River north. The amount of land that has been taken away from the forest industry is astronomical. It is shocking to see so much land untouchable in the future because of the various designations for purposes that have been imposed on those areas.
They are areas where we would normally have had hundreds of other people working. At one time, when I was working in the forest industry, we had something like 30,000 members in our union—the loggers' local. They made one that covered our area here. That union today is represented by the steelworkers because, by themselves, the loggers didn't have enough numbers to justify a national union. I think the membership is down to something around 10,000 people from the original 30,000, which was the number when I started working as a logger.