Thank you very much. Your testimony's been very reassuring to some of the thoughts I've had. I believe that the free trade agreement with Honduras is a step forward. It's a lot easier to work from within than it is from without. You work within. You sometimes have to put up with things that are in the country, but we as Canadians can't go in and say this is the way it has to be done. It's their country. We wouldn't accept them coming into ours.
With that, I do know that poverty is great in all three of the countries you're talking about. Unemployment is one of the big reasons that the gangs are so prevalent. If they can be helped economically to come along, rule of law will come with it, I think. I've heard from various parts of the third world countries that are in conflict, and they all seem to have that same problem, rule of law. You've expressed very much today how it has to go.
I have one question. The prosecutors are not elected. They're not on five-year terms, because that would probably be a waste. I think the way you're going about it to train those people...and we have to have patience going forward. We had the chair of the board of Gildan here, from the garment industry. Canada is quite involved in the garment industry in Honduras. It has somewhere in the neighborhood of 40,000 employees. That company transports its workers to work. If they were riding the regular bus, they might not make it to work.
You've explained a bit that sometimes our mining industry might get a black eye. It's doing the best it can, but it's working within the situation that is there. But it is providing jobs. We have to look at the amount they make. The garment workers make somewhere around $90 a week or something like that. That's a lot more than $1 a day or $1.25. That's the average there.
Does the free trade agreement and Canada helping create some jobs in Honduras help your particular interests going forward?