Our company employs 1,700 men and women. Our payroll is between $150 million and $170 million. That many people with very high incomes means very attractive tax revenues for both levels of government. That's one way we contribute.
As Mr. Cloutier pointed out earlier, proximity to trees is key to our industrial model. That also means proximity to supplies. We spend more than half a billion dollars of our considerable revenue on goods and services in Quebec, in the local market. For over a year now, we've also been spending tens of millions of dollars on woodchips and other products from Ontario. We also spend smaller amounts elsewhere. Fellow industry members have business models with a similar supply structure. Very few industries generate as many economic spinoffs near their production activities as ours does.