First, to clarify a little, I think there is a big difference between our interaction with government versus that of the commission and other boards and agencies within the north, and the NTI. We were consulted; theirs was a negotiation. It was a higher level of involvement. I'm not questioning that. I think that's appropriate.
What I did see, which I highlighted in my remarks, is that the level of consultation we were given was far greater than we had seen in the past. We very much appreciated that. There was a lot of back-and-forth. I think it was, in part, that in the Northwest Territories the Mackenzie Valley Resource Management Act certainly went through some growing pains, and there were some times when things were not going so well.
To Rick's point earlier, it has matured, and with respect to new mining developments in the NWT, the regulatory system is better now than it used to be. I think there was a desire by the government to avoid repeating the mistakes of the past and to seek more input from industry than had been the case with the Mackenzie Valley Resource Management Act. I think that was part of it, and we were very much appreciative of it.
I would also like to comment on our recommendations in this brief. They were recommendations we had made previously. Not everything we submitted was accepted, so what you're seeing here is what we've said before. The commission has not seen this brief because we have only prepared it for this particular session, but they've seen these recommendations before, because they have been in the public domain.