Mr. Speaker, I would like to ask, where was this member while the government was travelling in the spring of 2009? B.C. MPs met with the forestry sector communities in British Columbia in the spring of 2008. I personally travelled during the summers of 2007 and 2008 to meet with the people in the communities where the mills were closing down.
I was there. I was there over the last two years, listening and speaking to the people in those communities. In the spring of 2000 I met with the BC First Nations Forestry Council. That is where I learned that it had been trying to meet for two years with the Minister of Natural Resources and could not get a meeting with the B.C. minister.
I am not speaking on my own. This is something that has been going on. We have watched this demise since 2005, when the Liberal government put $100 million into this community. In 2006 the Conservative government promised it and did not do it.
I can tell the member where I was.