Thank you, Chair.
I really appreciate the testimony, Mr. Vivian, and the questions from my colleagues on both sides. Please don't take my questions as being negative towards mining.
I'm the member of Parliament for Labrador, where we mine for nickel, copper and cobalt. We have the second-largest iron ore mine in the world. I know you know it very well.
I'm drawn back to your earlier testimony and to some of the leading questions that talked about 30% of land being set aside to do anything but mining. You'd be familiar with that. In Labrador, the Inuit gifted back to Canada a significant portion of land in the north. It became a national park to drive economic value for Inuit, Canadians and the world.
Relying on UNDRIP and the mandate of the duty to consult and free, prior and informed consent.... I want to ask you some questions around that, because I'm drawn to an opportunity on the border of my riding in Lac Brisson or Strange Lake, where geologists like you have gone in to look for rare earth elements. There are a lot of them there. They forgot a very important policy, and Inuit have said, “Not now.”
Tying this back to the mandate and scope of this study, how do we get this right so that people who live in those communities and see an opportunity to work on an exploration project have a job tomorrow? Sometimes, because of the failure of a company leading a project, they're unemployed, and that certainly impacts affordability.