—in B.C. or the prairie provinces.
I will say there's a lot of misunderstanding about the forest industry, and I have no reason to think this is any different across the country. I've worked across the country, but my specific knowledge being from Atlantic Canada, I would say that one of the things that strikes me is today in Nova Scotia that only 23% of our crown land is available for unrestricted forest management. The rest is tied up in some way, shape, or form in protections that provide for wildlife habitat protection.
I say and acknowledge that as a fact. In a recent survey of the general public we just did—I say “we”, being the industry in Atlantic Canada—on what they thought about the forest industry, about one-third of the respondents thought we were harvesting more than 50% of our forests on an annual basis. If that were true, the industry would be out of business in two years.