I could start on that.
I'll pitch this to you, because you come from Sudbury, which is a totally integrated.... It is one of the four city-states of metal mining in the world. I'll tell you what the others are, if you like.
There's big-time mining and there's big-time mining supply. The Ontario Mining Association did a study, which came out within the last year, where they modelled a mine in Sudbury producing nickel and copper. The revenue of the mine was $270 million per year and it created 480 jobs working for the mine. It also created 1,103 jobs amongst mining suppliers in the upstream supply chain, and another 697 positions in the community around where the people who worked for the mine effectively went out and spent their money after taxes and savings and whatever.
So this mine in your community—it's not a huge mine, and all the assumptions were very conservative—actually employs 2,280 people. This is what happens when we find a new mine. We get that.
You ask what government can do. First of all, we've got to ensure that Canada remains a place where people want to invest in exploration and production in mining. That's a big question. The federal government has its hand in that and the provincial governments have their hands in that.
Second, innovation is extremely important to maintaining the productivity and the health and safety and environmental performance of the industry. As I pointed out in my introduction, the mining suppliers play a big role in that, the mining suppliers in your community.
Now, on top of that we can have the icing on top of the cake, because those suppliers in your community can also export their services and goods, which have been developed because you have this wonderful cluster in Sudbury. They can export to the rest of Canada and they can export to the rest of the world. But most of them are small and medium-sized enterprises. It's very difficult for them to tackle the Chinese market and other markets as traders. They need help, which comes from collective approaches, which this country is lacking. It's not money.