In our situation, from my experience, we live in an area that prospers under cooperation and co-existence. It's very much on a traditional basis. The mining companies you mentioned have come to the table, to a great extent. One of the first things identified was that it would be far better to employ local people rather than flying them in and out. So several of the mines have contributed to secondary level pre-trades programs at the high schools, and there's a program there.
When we talk about housing, especially with homelessness, the BHP Ekati mine funded the study that led to our day shelter and has contributed operating money through the first three years of its operation, partnered with health and social services in the city, to the extent of providing some useful work activities.
The men's shelter I mentioned--the project manager was the Diavik diamond mine. We put up an $8.6 million building for $5.2 million. The balance of that was community donations, contributions from the mines, and it was a massive community opportunity. As I said before, the community really comes behind things. The De Beers mine has been active in the educational program and in a number of other things.
At the back of that, all of those mines have a pre-negotiated impact benefits agreement with the aboriginal communities they're impacting, so they're flowing significant dollars into those communities as well.
From my experience, the mines have put an ice pad into the arena in Coppermine/Kugluktuk. They put one in Lutsok'e. They're currently doing some work in Betchico. They've assisted us in putting together our territorial dementia centre here, which was home care or a hospital psych ward before. Also, they came in and assisted with the second phase of our multiplex hockey arena and allowed it to come in on budget and two and a half years early. So from my perspective in dealing with them, they've been very much a part of the community.