No. That's the short answer: no. The dollar is going to move around, and indeed it's sending signals as it moves around. The volatility is hard to deal with, but it is sending signals that are generally appropriate. As we look at what's been going on, the movement in the dollar largely, though not entirely, has reflected changes in demand for Canadian products.
You mentioned the forestry industry, and they face three sets of problems. One, you've got all the new production from the tropical softwood coming on, so the amount of global capacity to produce pulp and paper has been growing quite rapidly, and those trees grow very fast. So there are real pressures, just as in the consumer goods sector there are real competitive pressures coming from places like Brazil and Indonesia, and so on, on the product.
Second, as you pointed out, the mills tend to be in communities where there are not a lot of other things going on, so when a mill closes down there are few, if any, opportunities for the workers in that community, although there may be tremendous opportunities elsewhere. So there's a huge adjustment problem that is not faced, for example, in a place like Oshawa, where people can get on the 401, clogged as it is, and go 30 or 40 kilometres for another job. The adjustment in northern communities is a much more difficult problem, and we clearly recognize that.
Finally, it is also true that generally speaking our mills tend to be old. We have not made as much investment through the seventies and eighties as we really should have, and now there's a huge challenge to try to get up to date. So it is an enormous challenge, because it is--somebody used the words--a perfect storm.
