Human Resources committee  Very simply, we'd have a great deal of difficulty getting to our site, with billions of dollars of investment and thousands of people working there, because the only way to get there, except for a few weeks of the year, is by air.

Human Resources committee  Certainly a lot of those communities are accessible only by air. Once again, there are no roads to connect them. Our industry is dependent on those kinds of services. Other types of mining operations that we might be looking at are also dependent on rail service. So there are ma

Human Resources committee  I think, again, we have to look at it on a case-by-case basis and whether the code applies, which it doesn't in all jurisdictions, but if this legislation passed.... As I've already indicated, we have a significant operation in the territories, and when we expand those we're inve

Human Resources committee  Mr. Chairman, as indicated in my brief, under the Canada Labour Code, in the instance that a proposed agreement is voted on and rejected, it can be considered a strike vote. That's what occurred, and so be it. At the same time, there are other checks and balances in the system, a

Human Resources committee  Thank you. It would mean that it would be extremely difficult for us to retain the operation at all, because the workers we were able to keep at site would be deemed to be replacement workers and couldn't legally work there. We'd be facing a very, very serious situation.

Human Resources committee  Thank you. I'll just take the last question first. I'm not familiar with AFI or its use at Ekati. That's entirely new to me, so I simply can't say that I can confirm that at all. In terms of things like videos, I remember being videoed by a picket line at our pickup point at

Human Resources committee  Yes.

Human Resources committee  Thank you very much, Mr. Chairman. My remarks today are further to a letter of December 11 that we sent to the standing committee on behalf of BHP Billiton Diamonds. My name is Graham Nicholls. I'm a vice-president and director of BHP Billiton Diamonds. Joining me in making th