This is an interesting nexus with what Bill C-300 would do. Had Bill C-300 been law five years ago, ten years ago, then this project that Mr. Schnoor talked about in the Siria Valley in Honduras, the San Martin project, would have been operated more responsibly.
Here's how it bleeds across borders. The people in Cabañas in El Salvador went and visited this site, the San Martin mine. They saw the atrocities that occurred there. They came back to El Salvador and said, “There is no way that we want this kind of damage done in El Salvador”. This spread throughout the nation. The new president said, “This isn't worth it and we're proposing to ban all metal mining within the country”.
Yes, as far as I know, it would be the first country in the world to do such.... Think about the competitive disadvantage that places on other legitimate Canadian mining companies that may want to do mining in El Salvador someday.
So that's why this is a very prudent piece of legislation, I think, in the interests of economic development.