I understand that the Panamanian government has been revisiting Bill C-30. At the same time we've lost Bill C-300. The opportunity is there. As I say, the question is, what kind of investment would be made by Canadian companies in the absence of any particular requirements?
In Canada, under the land claims agreements, for instance, we have specific powers for first nations and Inuit to require impact benefit agreements with profit-sharing, employment and training, and so on. We have other examples in the provinces of mining companies engaging in long-range planning and training projects in order to bring local people into those better jobs.
In Latin America it has been less successful. Even in countries with mining experience--and Panama is not one of those--it has been more difficult. Countries like Peru have been able to move their own people into the better jobs, but only over time and with some cost. I think the difficulty is that instituting that kind of investment in a virgin territory, for lack of a better term, is not going to lead to success in the short or even the medium term.