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affordability is to have a good-paying job. And right now our community is losing a lot of them. And it is -- it is devastating. And I don't know if we can even quantify the loss right now. >> Tom: when you look around this community and you know that this issue has divided this community over the years -- how do you -- how do you think that this community moves on? >> Good question. We spend a lot of time trying to figure it out as a community to see if we can move on. But for me it's about community. It is about having people, having secure jobs, being able to come home at 5:00 and being able to raise their families and to be here for their families. And when you have that number of good-paying jobs leaving overnight, it's just devastating. >> Tom: and the fact is that the mill hasn't been operating full time for some time now. But you're seeing that impact of that -- that temporary shutdown and now what would seem to be a permanent shutdown. >> And it's a slow drip, right? Like it doesn't happen all at once and people don't pull up their houses the day after the announcement. I'll give you an example. In our community there's a lot of farms in our community that have five, 10, 20 head of cattle. There's a gentleman that takes them to the market. And over time those people running those farms they have to sell off their livestock and they didn't have to have time to do it, and they were not home at night. >> Tom: working at the mill but farming on the side. >> Or hauling chips or they could have been cutting or doing all kinds of things in the forestry business. But as a community we gotta figure out what we want. Like, do we want to have, um, a service-based industry? Or do we want to make things? And I think that is where we have to start putting our heads around. >> Tom: you told me earlier this is a community that historically has made things. >> Yes. >> Tom: pulp and paper and so on. >> Yep. >> Tom: does that -- does that change? >> I hope not. Not everybody goes to work and puts their feet on their desk. Not everybody does that. People go in the woods and they work in the woods and we had car works here and we had all kinds of stuff. And our manufacturing base has been eroded over the last 20 years. We had just looked at our industries around here. And where we need -- we need to come to grips with this and we need to do something to organize the communities a little better. >> Tom: is part of you surprised that this day has come this quickly? >> Well, I was on the environmental liaison committee and that was up and running. And what I can tell you is that the talk around the table was harsh towards the mill. But it was tough conversations. And the hope was that they'd come up with a plan that was suitable for everyone. And we thought that the transformation plan had a bit of life in it, but apparently not. >> Tom: well that hits the head on the nail, doesn't it? Can you have an industry in pictou county -- must you have an industry in pictou county -- that respects the environment but also is a job creator? >> I guess what I'll say to sathat is tothatis to read the transformation report they had, because it answers a lot of questions from the people -- on the environmental regulator -- I'm a community person. My hope is that there would be some kind of way that we could all work together. >> Tom: do you think that there is a lost opportunity here? Do you think that pictou had tried harder they might have been able to save this mill? >> It's a complicated history, I guess, is the best way to put it. And I don't know if -- if -- I don't know if it's a communications issue -- that's for other people to figure out. I can't -- I can't answer that. >> Tom: and others will feel like good riddance, the mill sort was calling the shots for a long time in this part of the province and the fact that bow harbour even existed was even wrong because of what happened to the first nations community. So is there any solace in that given today's development? >> What I will say is that for people in all corners of the county, I just want them to think about the people that depended on their livelihood in the forest industry.

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