Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Mr. Beauregard, from the standpoint of an NGO, if you're working in a place, and all of a sudden some company comes in.... I've been in a lot of situations in Asia and Africa that have been quite harmonious and in which the NGOs worked well with the extraction industry, but in some cases the place where the resources are is very difficult; I think of places like Sudan or Nigeria, or whatever it is. For an NGO then to come forward and say, “Look, there are real serious problems here for you as an industry that we want you to understand...”. In the case of Talisman, for instance, what ended up happening was that Talisman gave frivolous and vexatious defences. It was different. The NGO was having trouble getting heard, and other NGOs did as well.
What I'm asking, in light of what Mr. McGuinty has also said, is what tools would be necessary on either side to make it more time effective? These kinds of explorations and investigations in remote areas can take a long time. For both industry and the local host communities, and especially NGOs, which have to be careful with the government of the country they're working in, what is the most time-effective way to make them happen?