I would like to answer that question with this one: where are the companies going to go? To the United States or Australia, where they can be sued? To China? To England? The expertise and the financial wherewithal are here, in Canada. The mining capital of the world is Toronto. The exploration capital of the world is Vancouver. That is not going to change overnight. It took a number of years to build and is going to remain.
On December 1st, 2009. See this statement in context.