Dear Premier Horgan: Last Sunday, November 17, 2019, mediation talks collapsed between WFP and the USW and there appears no end to this prolonged strike, now the longest in history on the BC Coast. Our companies, staff and employees, and even our trade suppliers can’t continue on much longer without being financially devastated. Being in the Vancouver Island harvesting sector, our companies are largely dependent on WFP to be financially viable over the long term. HDL has been in business for nearly 50 years and has been a growing and financially stable employer over that period. We are an active contributor to our communities on the North Island through providing high wage employment, paying taxes and government fees, and supporting local charitable organizations. We are a vital component to the social and economic well being of these communities. In 2018, HDL and its affiliates paid millions of dollars in employee and subcontractor wages and benefits and employed in excess of 75-80 staff, employees and subcontract employees in its operations. Additionally, we contribute to the local economy of the North Island purchasing goods and services from local suppliers and vendors. If this strike is to continue much longer families are going to lose their homes, businesses are going to close, and the financial well being of our communities in general will be irreparably harmed. The cost to government will, not only be huge in financial terms due to lost taxation, but also costly in providing social services to respond to the fallout the prolonged strike is producing. Attached is a map showing the affected ridings and the numbers of striking workers in each riding. We implore you to intervene in this strike so that our workers, their families and our businesses can get back to making the Coastal Forest Industry a global leader once again. Yours sincerely, Robert Wood, President HOLBROOK DYSON LOGGING LTD.