Foreign Affairs committee  I'll go with my colleague's answer. It's a good question without a good answer. I'll kick it over to your side of the table. In some respects, the politicians are going to have to do something with leadership. It is interesting. I noticed that article and there's been a series b

Foreign Affairs committee  Antamina's direct payroll is around 1,200 or 1,300. Virtually all of that is Peruvian. There are two or three ex-pats at the senior levels, and technical people are brought in as necessary. The multiplier effect through indirect and induced employment is probably three to one. Th

Foreign Affairs committee  I'm scratching my memory a little to understand. Do you mean in terms of the copper program's developing new projects?

Foreign Affairs committee  Yes. We're a partner in a mine called Antamina 400 kilometres north of Lima. Our other partners include BHP and Xstrata and one Japanese trading house. In the Antamina program, maybe it's the focus on community development you're interested in.

Foreign Affairs committee  There's a set of initiatives partly funded through a tax in Peru called a canon, which is additionally funded by a separate contribution from Antamina to a foundation run by local governments, mayors, and politicians. It funds infrastructure and agricultural opportunities and so

Foreign Affairs committee  My experience is in Nepal. It's exactly the issue of distribution. When we started this program, the CEO and myself felt that it was just about being able to count up the number of pills and the number of kids you save. Once you get into the field, you realize it's a lot more tha

Foreign Affairs committee  As one last thing, as part of a company engaged in this and just learning it, I think that last point is the key one--measuring, monitoring, reporting, and keeping transparency. That's how we run our business. That's how this business needs to be run.

Foreign Affairs committee  That's where, as I explained, there's a continuum, from children who are suffering from diarrhea through to fortifying fertilizers with zinc in order to be able to improve the quality and quantity of the grains grown in now zinc-sufficient, rather than zinc-deficient, soils.

Foreign Affairs committee  Fertilizer is a multitude of chemicals. The basic ones are what they call NPK fertilizers. But what agriculturalists understand as they've learned more is that there are also micronutrients that are important in fertilizers. Zinc is one of them, and barium is another one. I'm not

Foreign Affairs committee  One of the things we've come to know is that in parts of China where the intensity of agriculture has gone up substantially even though the diet hasn't changed much—it's either wheat- or rice-based—in both cases the intensity of agriculture depletes the soil of zinc. The conseque

Foreign Affairs committee  Thank you. Thanks, Chris. Teck and its predecessor company, Cominco, have been mining, smelting, refining, and selling zinc for a hundred years. Only in the last decade have we understood that it's not just a product that galvanizes steel and keeps your garbage cans from rustin