Thank you, Chair. I appreciate the opportunity.
Gary, again, thank you for coming.
For context for the viewers, in terms of region size, we were talking about protecting 30% of the Northwest Territories. That might seem insignificant to somebody who is not living there, but the Northwest Territories is the third-largest region in the country, at 1.346 million square kilometres, so 30% of NWT is very significant in geographical size.
I want to go back to something you said before. Exploration has been on the decline in NWT since 2007, and you said this isn't a new problem and that the Northwest Territories has a bad reputation. Why is exploration in such sharp decline in the Northwest Territories, Gary?