That is a unique situation on the west coast, where a number of tribes along the corridor in northern British Columbia have work with an LNG proposal. It's been a constructive arrangement. It's working. I would think it might be important to take that specific example and look at it to see what's worked in regard to that particular proposal. There were a number of moving parts, one of which was training funds. The company, along with the federal government, was involved in providing some of the training resources to allow that to happen. As I was saying earlier, for the last year, that resource has not been available from the federal side, and there's been a lot of waiting and anxiety about whether or not that will continue down the road.
I'm going to give you an example. In the forest industry, which I'm particularly familiar with in British Columbia, in the 1970s and into the 1980s there was virtually a war in the woods. It was about jobs, trying to create jobs and to protect the environment where people made their livelihood. Over time, first nations have been accessing timber resources, and now they have their own sawmills and their own contracting companies in the communities, and people are working. There is dramatically less conflict now.
Lax Kw'alaams, for example, on the west coast, has an office in Beijing now and sells its wood products and lumber products and other products in China. As a result, I have been going to China for five or six years now talking to business people and state-owned enterprises and working on political development and constructive relationships. The chiefs in British Columbia have developed what they call the China strategy and have supported it and approved it in resolutions. We've been building on that. Recently we have been talking to the chiefs of Treaty 6, Treaty 7, and Treaty 8 first nations in Alberta regarding how we might bring our respective expertise and resources together for a greater impact for our peoples and our communities.