In the last week, we've had meetings with various MPs in terms of the impact and the job loss. In your example in Grand Forks, it's one of our mills. It's an Interfor mill that was down for a couple of months. Thankfully, they recently announced that they were bringing back one shift with about half of the workforce coming back. We were in the midst of trying to negotiate transfer agreements so that some of those folks, those members, those workers, could commute and work over in Castlegar at the sister mill of Interfor there. Nonetheless, we didn't have to because they came back, but I think that's temporary.
What we've been talking to the federal government about is that we are hitting a crisis mode here in terms of the manufacturing part of things. The levers of loan guarantees and stuff that I mentioned previously around the announced programs by the federal government are really good; however, I don't know if they go far enough.
I think there is an immediate need for expanded EI access so that these folks don't miss mortgage payments or car payments or, as you put it, miss putting food on their tables. I think it's going to get worse before it gets better.