I feel that for Kenora it was too late. Once the mill is closed and bulldozed down, it doesn't help us very much.
But there is one thing I'm amazed at in our area, as I mentioned to Ken Boshcoff on the way out. I was a lawyer, so I don't know much about forestry--maybe I don't know much about other things as well--but I've lived in Kenora for 45 years, so I've seen the good times and the bad times. But one thing amazes me. I think in a basic way supply and demand is really all we're talking about here today. We have an oversupply, but in Kenora we have a supply and a demand, and the federal government--not just your administration, but going way back--turns their back. Indian Affairs should be using our wood supply to put housing on the reserves. If you stand in downtown Kenora, within 40 miles we have 10 reserves.
On the way down on the airplane, Chief Fisher from the Whitedog reserve was coming down to see your Minister of Indian Affairs, because they've been waiting for a school for years and years, and it keeps being delayed. Why don't we build that now? We have the product and we have all those things going for us, and every reserve in our area needs housing. Why wouldn't Indian Affairs...? Unless there's some constipation someplace in the federal bureaucracy, why wouldn't we be making use of our supply and demand?