Your question is very timely.
I can say this because he gave me authority to say it. I met several days ago with Mr. J.D. Irving, the owner of Irving Paper. He urged me to continue the work our union has been doing.
I've met with every CEO in Canada with regard to holding such a high-level summit, and we will. We are hoping that the sitting government will participate, but we will go ahead and do it, one way or the other.
The one point that I think has to be made here is about the severity of this crisis. I personally am not in favour of any kind of a covenant that says you can't sell a mill, but I can't give some of these mills away when the employers say take them. In some of these situations I have travelled the world trying to find someone to operate a mill. In fact in some cases government has offered to pay people to take a mill. This crisis in Canada is very, very serious.
We have a number of companies still in CCAA; we have some on the verge of going in CCAA. If there are not radical changes to the way we treat our forests, we will have hardly any paper mills or solid wood mills running in Canada and Quebec. That's not idle talk, it's reality. We need somebody to step up.