The uptake has been incredible. We started out doing Zoom and Teams meetings from our offices in Campbell River to other communities. Then, in September, we held a networking event at the Union of British Columbia Municipalities, where we had hoped that 50 to 60 people would show up. We had over 200 people attend. We've continued to have a great positive response.
We're trying to get the message across to more metropolitan areas, to show them how connected...and why what we do in the urban and rural areas is so important to them. For example, with aquaculture, the food is produced in the Lower Mainland. If aquaculture gets shut down, they lose lots of jobs in that area. It's the same with a lot of the wood that gets cut in many areas. It gets towed down the Fraser and gets dealt with in mills in those areas. The Georgia strait is where the head offices for Western Forest Products and Interfor are. What happens in our remote, resource-based communities is super important to the city dwellers. We've tried, through the alliance, to get that across to many mayors and councillors.