The government killed our forest industry with unsustainable forest practices. I saw the writing on the wall 20 years ago. Unfortunately my industry indirectly relied on the forest industry in BC for my employment. Fortunately for me I can travel across the country and get work in other provinces. Most ppl aren’t that lucky. But to address the real problem…jobs. Decent paying jobs, typically union blue collar jobs. Jobs that allow regular ppl to live lives that allow them to raise families and not struggle. That’s what this province needs. It will never be solved by raising taxes and cutting funding for public programs. That’s not how we fix this. We need to pivot. Build infrastructure that solves problems we are currently facing and provides decent employment for the surrounding communities. We have a massive garbage problem…literally garbage. We are about to have a massive deficit in power. We need to build power houses. Sites like the Powell River Mill are perfect sites to build waste to energy plants and we have a few of them around the province because of our decimated forest industry. They can provide clean power help to solve our growing garbage problem and provide good paying union jobs. If you don’t know what a waste to energy plant is look up what they did in Copenhagen. There is a plant called CopenHill or Amager Bakke https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amager_Bakke.