Given the prices of ores, mining and pressure mining are going to continue. If you look around the room, everything we use here, our cellphones, our watches...the demands are there and they will continue. It can be done in a way that's positive, that leads to economic growth, or attempts to lead to economic growth, or it can be done in ways that are more mercantilistic, that have no regard for the people involved.
You can believe that Canadian companies—your neighbours, your friends—in the mining industry are set on going to a place like Panama and trying to, pardon my French, bleep over the population, or you can believe that if given the resources and the opportunities to look at best practices in corporate social responsibility, in engagement, they'll do the right thing. I think what you see with Mr. Clarke is indicative of the positive aspects of the Canadian mining industry.
It's about working with the positive aspects. Yes, we need to punish those who harm people, and we'll be one of the first ones to march with MiningWatch when serious violations do occur. But companies that are trying to do things right, trying to make a difference....
And again, in this we compete with the Chinese. If you think you've seen a company that has really bleeped over the population, that has committed violations, serious violations, well, look to our competitors. You weaken us. You weaken companies that work with people like Clarke Educational Services. You stop them from going in. You create a competitive advantage for companies that don't.
So it's a heck of a chance to increase the bad and reduce the good. Or you can do the opposite and increase the good and reduce the bad. That's what this agreement will do, and that's what companies like Clarke Educational Services will do.