The industry needs the markets to sell the primary products to.
You are exactly right that moving up the value chain would be very welcome. It would bring more jobs. The problem is that you have to decide what value chain you want to move up on. It's unlikely that Canadians are going to start to work for $1 an hour to make cabinets, guitars, and violins. That's probably not a value chain we want to go up. The value chain we do want to go up is where we extract the maximum amount of value out of the tree and turn it into value-added products in the form of bioenergy, bioproducts, biochemicals.
That's something we can do here in Canada. We can add enormous amounts of value. There are many jobs here. If we go strictly to taking down a tree and burning it for energy, there are very few jobs in that. If you integrate that into the making of lumber, pulp, and paper--the traditional products--then you have an industry that will create more jobs than what already exist.
As I say, we already have 240,000 people directly employed in the industry. If we move into the bioeconomy a little more forcefully, we will grow that number fairly significantly, I would think.