Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  In terms of the numbers that I have, the direct number of employees at the mine operation was approximately 334. Those were direct employees of the mine. In terms of direct and indirect employees, it was approximately 1,500 at the time. As for the overall investment that we've ma

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  Okay.

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  Since we have no mining operations in Honduras and we are not planning any activities in the country, I cannot comment on that new legislation.

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  In some of our operations around the world, employees are unionized, in others, they are not. We have always respected the right of employees to fully exercise their rights with company managers. In mines that are not unionized, we have also set up a number of ways for workers’ f

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  In Honduras?

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  I can give you a very concrete example in Canada, and more specifically in Quebec. We are presently working in northern Quebec, where we have come to an agreement with the Cree. We are actually including them in our activities to the extent that they also benefit from the compan

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  Excuse me, Mr. Jacob, but there was an echo when you started. Are you talking about the mine in Honduras?

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  Yes.

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  The expertise?

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  Here is an example of what we are doing in terms of the environment. In Guatemala, three organizations are presently considering how to work together so that, when samples from various areas outside the mine come back from the international laboratories to which we send them, we

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  Actually, the Marlin mine is in Guatemala.

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  The mine in Honduras is the San Martin mine.

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  Okay. In terms of the studies that the government conducted in the area, there is nothing to prove that people there were contaminated by certain metals. However, we are continuing to provide extensive health care, not only to mine workers, but also to the people who live in the

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  In different countries there are different standards currently in place. As we use our standards, which are basically across all of our operations, part of our work in corporate social responsibility is to make sure that we do go in and do the consultative process in a way that,

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  I always say that if every one of those were true, I'd probably be in jail by now for everything I'd been doing. At Goldcorp, as a Canadian mining company with standards that are very high in how we operate here in Canada, we take those lessons learned and bring them to other pl