Certainly I agree with your analysis of what people asked for. When I met with my counterparts, the ministers in the provinces, in Halifax at the beginning of January and then again in Edmonton with the western part, it was very clear across the country how important reforestation, silviculture, is to the industry itself. Even though we're in an economic recession now and we're having troubled times for the forestry sector, I would say they are prospectively very, very positive about where the industry is going. They fully expect, and are preparing, to come out of that downturn.
Something like silviculture is a tool to make sure the product is there in a smart way for the forest products industries to utilize, to be stewards of, and to make products from as we go forward. We've taken that back into the department in terms of developing ideas around the community adjustment fund, as well as talking to FPInnovations and to the Forest Products Association of Canada, to all of those industries, on the awareness and importance of silviculture.
It came up as well in a number of interviews that I've done with media outlets. The desire is there within municipalities, regions, and provinces not only to hone the resource and make sure the resource is there for the future but also to get people back to work, quite frankly, and to make sure there is an ability to keep people within the forestry segment working in that area while we're experiencing the economic downturn.