The first thing to do, in the short term, is to find the necessary financing, loan guarantees that will enable us to maintain what's in place. Obviously, in some sectors, paper, for example, depending on the markets, were not working to keep all the plants open. We're working to retain our best elements. We've cut costs as far as possible in all plants. Obviously, with the falling market, we can't ask to keep all our plants open. We'll have to examine the companies that are currently in place. In our communities and among our workers, there are bankruptcy situations, the impact on people who are retiring is great, and people will be losing their jobs. These people won't be around in future to start the secondary and tertiary processing plants back up. If there is no primary processing, we definitely won't be creating any jobs in the future.
Few people are signing up for training at Laval University or elsewhere because there's too much uncertainty about the future. I remind you that there are 9,000 retirees in Quebec, and that's just at AbitibiBowater. In Lac-Saint-Jean, according to the information we have and the number of retirees, if work had to stop tomorrow morning, at the end of March, no operations would be maintained at AbitibiBowater, unlike Smurfit-Stone, which has managed to borrow $750 million to maintain four out of five plants in operation. That would be catastrophic! We're talking about 7,600 direct jobs. We're not talking about indirect jobs, subcontractors and so on. That will be hell! There will be people in the street. It's just starting and I'm telling you that there's going to be trouble in Lac-Saint-Jean next week because people will be very unhappy about what's going on. They really want the federal government's support and assistance in the form of loan guarantees.