Sir, just to add a bit onto that, some of the larger companies have significant exploration programs as well. This is certainly an incentive that we fully support. In a sense, exploration can be viewed a bit like the R and D for our industry. It's helping to find the products that will bring future prosperity. There is a synergy between the larger companies and the exploration companies in terms of buying their properties or buying the companies, and this has been going on for the better part of a century in Canada. We fully support any kind of extension, or making permanent, this kind of incentive that Mr. Baird is proposing.
On May 14th, 2009. See this statement in context.