My experience has certainly been that, given support and offered a constructive space for dialogue and solution and resolution, companies that I have worked with would choose that every time. It doesn't make sense for them not to avail themselves of a process like that. They take their social licence very seriously, and we are experiencing that as a significant political risk in B.C. because of the uncertainty with first nations. We have a number of companies leaving because they cannot obtain social licence to operate.
On June 3rd, 2010. See this statement in context.