Without a doubt, the Canadian mining finance industry leads the world in bringing technical expertise into frontier areas. The mining industry and the mining finance industry are always looking for new frontiers in which to invest. When you go to a frontier area, discoveries are the easiest. In terms of trying to continuously reinvent discoveries in traditional mining terrains, like the Timmins camp, like the Val-d'Or area, and so on, it's always harder to find the second- and third-generation mines. Those first ones jump out of the ground at you, and I believe that in very short order, with appropriate incentives and security measures, you could see parts of Afghanistan blossom in terms of industrial development, the same way that northern Quebec, northern Ontario, northern Saskatchewan, and northern Manitoba did in the mid-twentieth century.
