Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Mr. King, because Mr. Van Kesteren raised this point.... I was going to stay away from it, but I'm our party's human rights critic and I've had before me delegations from the Philippines and from Peru and delegations of indigenous people who say that Canadian mining companies have been involved with pushing them off their lands. In the context of what we're talking about here tonight, this was not a topic I was going to go to, but since Mr. Van Kesteren has raised it, we have an issue being brought to Canadian parliamentarians about corporate and social responsibility relative to our mining corporations.
My understanding is that in the Philippines some 900,000 acres of land have been optioned by the mining companies in contested areas, and in Peru there's almost a similar case.
Are you aware of that, sir?