Mr. Chair, the government keeps trying to tell us that $1.2 billion is a big number while telling us that $78.3 billion is a small number. The Liberals say that relief is on the way, but our communities tell me that it is going to come too late. The assistance programs that this government is rolling out, first of all, took six months to announce, and I am told that companies are being told that it will be three to six months before their applications are even adjudicated.
One in six manufacturing jobs and one in 28 jobs in all of B.C. depends on forestry. Why is it taking this government so long to act?