Thank you, Madam Chair.
Thank you, member Sopuck, for that breathless partisanship. I'm flabbergasted by the politicized contributions. If Canada has a toxic regulatory environment, we're emerging from 10 years of Conservative governance. You speak to polluter pays. Clearly, the polluter pays principle applies in a political context as well and thank goodness that we have a new government.
Thank you to all of you. This has actually been really helpful. However, I'd like to invite our witness from the Mining Association, Mr. Gratton, to speak to the mining sector's experience of a loss of public trust. How has the past decade or so changed, in terms of the public trust component of average Canadians, many of whom don't really experience the mining sector. They don't understand it and they don't know it.
How has their trust in regulatory institutions been affected?