While many of the daily activities we all deal with in this business can take years to accomplish, it doesn’t mean things move slowly when it comes to industry reaction to forest policy change. …Were they aware that losses of literally billions of dollars in GDP contributions to the Province is a direct result of the forest industry revenues falling by an harvest decline? And what about the loss of 34,000 rural, community-based forest industry jobs and all the taxes they will no longer pay? …It is hard to believe government did not understand the consequences of their actions given the plethora of analysis and forecasting that has been made available to them. …Can the path we are on change? Perhaps, but it will require that political leaders realize the problems and demonstrate a willingness to tackle them decisively with all interests, including the forest sector.