I should emphasize that we have been working hard on the community resilience initiative since January. If it's successful, it would come under our community economic development stream. Typically, our project development process takes a number of months. We are in discussion with the mill closure task force that was put together by the Community Futures organizations.
As I said in my opening remarks, this idea is modelled pretty closely on what we were able to do in response to the 2017 and 2018 wildfires. The essence is to put together teams of individuals that can go into communities affected by this downturn in the forest sector, or in the case of the wildfires, by the wildfires themselves, to help the members of the community—including small businesses and entrepreneurs in and outside the forest sector, those indirectly affected and those affected by the induced effects of the slowdown—to access government services, including access to financing, technical services, marketing services, business plan development, even extending to mental health services. When situations like this occur in communities, the impact is broad and includes a psychological dimension on the community as a whole.
It's about sending in ambassadors to the community to help those affected access those services and, in the case of a small business, to reformulate their business plans to adapt to the changed circumstances. The changed circumstances in this case include, as previous witnesses have indicated to you, a dramatic reduction in fibre supply. There is also, of course, the market impact as a result of the tariffs by the United States. It's quite difficult to disentangle those impacts, but we're looking now in B.C. at up to 10,000 workers who are affected by the downturn in the industry. Those are workers in small communities where the options are often quite limited.
That's one that we're working hard on right now.