Thank you for the question.
A starting point would be to reiterate that the industry continues to employ 273,000 Canadians directly. We've been at the leading edge of this economic downturn. When the U.S. housing market went down we were the first ones to feel that pain, so we've been at this for a while. Yet we still employ those people.
It's safe to say that a significant number of long-term tenured employees are still part of the industry and would fall within the qualifications of this legislation. We expect there will be some continued economic turmoil. We don't think markets are going to come back for probably another year in our industry, so we expect there will be more mill closures--temporary shutdowns of some sort or another.
The provisions of this bill will benefit a number of those long-tenured employees in some of the areas where we are going to see some temporary closures. It will greatly help keep them in their communities so we don't lose them. When we come back we want to be able to get up and running as quickly as possible. We're going to need those highly trained, highly skilled employees to be back in our mills as soon as possible, and this will help.