Madam Chair, that is for sure a complicated issue, especially after 10 years of the market, the lumber industry, slowing down and losing mills. I do not know how many mills have been lost in B.C., but it has been maybe 10 or 15. Once we lose them, it is really hard to get them back.
For British Columbia, I agree that we need to work with the province as well for tenures for our logging, but it also takes leadership from Ottawa. We really need action, not words. We really need to see something produced, not just some comments about people being given money. Again, they are not looking for handouts; we all agree on that. They are looking for stability. They want to be able to predict what they are going to do in the next three years so that they can actually start to upgrade their mills and do more with the lumber they have. A lot of the mills now are actually really specialized and to do that, they need more equipment and it takes more investment.
