I think it's a great use of public dollars, because it's public geoscience. It is looking and doing the base line exploration that gets people in to look at new areas.
The new discovery in the Yukon, just as an example, the ATAC discovery, was actually a result of public geoscience money. There was a little bit of eight ppm gold, and some people followed up on it. It was in a regional database. People were scouring through that public geoscience and saying “Oh, this is interesting; I'm going to go and follow up on it”, and they did. ATAC last year was a $900-million market cap company. It has been a tremendous boon; it set up a whole new trend in the Yukon. And that can happen anywhere in the north.
What public geoscience is doing is providing the information that lets new companies go in to explore. Knowing areas of geological potential is also important for such things as land-use planning. While we think we know a lot, we really don't know very much about the geology in the north yet. We have a tremendous amount of work to do before people go in to explore it, before we can determine what areas we should protect. All of that is a great use of public geoscience data.