Finance committee  There are a couple of pieces to it. For certain skills, we're bringing people in from Latvia and Romania and across Europe. We're trying to supplement our workforce, particularly in the case of the rural communities around New Brunswick, where the communities are dying. The youn

Finance committee  It's on the edge. It's on the fringe.

Finance committee  It's coming. We're working through our changes with the government. We would particularly give credit to the Province of New Brunswick on this one, and Nova Scotia and the federal government. We've had a good partnership. We're bringing a lot of folks in. I'll tell you, though, w

Finance committee  Those are all pieces, we think, on the unemployment piece and on the women piece. It's not all successful from day one, but you have to try. You have to start. We're working away at it here as a New Brunswick company.

Finance committee  You've sized it up, Wayne. That's what we're dealing with on different scales across the country. You've put your finger on it. There are pressures, whether they're political or whatever the issue is, but somebody has to be boss. At the end of the day, somebody has to set the pa

Finance committee  Is that about Canada ranking at 34 out of of 35 in the OECD countries? Is that the stat? I'm not sure.

Finance committee  Okay. I'm not quite sure which one it is, but....

Finance committee  Okay. It's surprising. I was on this task force, and that's how I was made more aware of all these issues than I already was. There's a very comprehensive report that's going to be issued by the federal government, I believe, if it's not out now. I think it is out now, as a mat

Finance committee  Yes. It's all under those headings. Take every sector. If you talk to the mining guys, they'll give you this. The pipelines are a case in point. How long have we been trying to get the crude out of Alberta on a competitive basis?

Finance committee  As I said, a small province like New Brunswick.... I can't speak to the other provinces. I have some experience in Nova Scotia and some in Newfoundland, so it's more Atlantic-based. It's this business about understanding the impact of the regulations, because it's debilitating.

Finance committee  You can make a long list of things, I think, depending on the sector. This, I think, starts with understanding where you are. You know what they say; if you know where you are, you're never lost. We need to know where we are vis-à-vis everybody else out there in the world that we

Finance committee  I think it's very important. We're a local company. We plant trees. We're not going to cut that tree for 35 years. I don't think there's a longer-term investment than that. We're private and we're patient, but these big public companies are moving around the world. Their various

Finance committee  I think we should look at everything. This is about being competitive. Whether you make a kind of pulp, french fries, or oil and gas, what are the pluses and minuses? If health care is an advantage to Canadian businesses...I mean, you're paying the tax and it's funded, so it's no

Finance committee  It's easy to talk. People complain about governments, about this government or that government. It seems like the political landscape is changing every four years now. At least in New Brunswick you would have a new premier every four years, or we think we have a new premier in Ne

Finance committee  There are two things. In the short term we talked about accelerating depreciation. That is something that attracts. That's hard dollars and cents. That's a calculation. The other thing is the state of the climate for investing. We have to have consistency about reliability. You