Mr. Speaker, I know he is keen for the response, so he would not want to ruin my time.
In terms of looking at the past, there are measures and elements that we have to recognize. No one projects going back to 1980. The circumstances have changed.
However, things were done then that are of value. There is a great story, and I would ask the member to take a look at Lax Kw'alaams, Port Simpson. It has been running a small, community-owned operative. It is putting 250 people to work on a consistent basis under the principle that we do not waste a stick of wood, under the principle of those who were guided by the elders in that first nations community that we must derive the greatest value added.
However, we have been running policies that leave slash piles in the bush that are taller than most houses in which people live. Those policies eventually come home to roost. We cannot have these inefficiencies. We have to look at completely new models of financing. The large conglomerate, highly leveraged forestry companies presented a weakness when they were over-dependent on one sector, the U.S. housing market. When that leaning happened, we saw that when it fell, it fell hard. This will continue. The government must not say that rosy times are around the corner because they are not. It is unfair and irresponsible to say otherwise.