Good afternoon. I'm Gavin Dirom, the president of the Association for Mineral Exploration, and I'm here today with my colleague, Byng Giraud.
We have three recommendations to present in follow-up to our paper.
As a bit of background on AME, we represent over 3,500 individual members and 300 corporate members, and we were established in 1912. This province actually produces about $6 billion of investment every year to explore here in B.C. and around the world, and in production money, production equates to about $8 billion of revenue.
With that, there will be three presentations today: one related to infrastructure, one related to tax cuts, and one related to harmonization of the federal and provincial regulations.
Before I do that, perhaps Byng can give a quick thank you in regard to the Highway 37 power line.