Thank you for putting it into perspective. I'm down to my last minute, so I have a question for Mr. Baird.
Madam Papillon mentioned that she reads the newspaper. Well, we read the newspaper as well. It reminded me of the quote by Mark Twain that if you don't read the newspaper, you're uninformed, and if you read the newspaper, you're misinformed. I worked for the Thomson newspapers group for four and a half years, so I know it can be true at times.
But specifically for the mining industry, perhaps you could summarize this. You mentioned briefly the multi-billion-dollar industry. In my riding there's Jeff Stibbard from JDS mining. There's the founder of Dia Met, Chuck Fipke, and some of the biggest mining companies working out of British Columbia. Maybe you could expand a little bit and inform the committee of the opportunities for the mining sector from the Pacific Alliance.