There's sort of a general consensus now in the industry that commodity prices have turned from the bottom of the recent down cycle. Year over year, copper is up almost a dollar. Zinc is up almost 40ยข. These are pretty significant leaps and bounds when you're producing millions of tonnes of this material.
With respect to global investment attractiveness, that is the biggest consideration right now. We're seeing information that suggests we're not keeping pace with Australia in the way we used to. It's a little disconcerting, to say the very least, and the principal contributing factor is that companies aren't going to invest in exploration to find a mine they don't think they will be able to permit, and they won't invest in exploration to develop a mine that, even if permitted, they can't afford to build.
So if you come back to some of the comments of your colleague earlier, the future of the Canadian mining industry lies increasingly in remote and northern regions. It's astronomically more expensive to do the same thing in those areas than it is in a centrally located jurisdiction, in a Sudbury, for example.