Sure. I'm confident that, given the longevity of this committee's study of this opportunity, there's been briefing on the instability in recent years in Argentina in particular. However, I would also suggest that the country has recently undertaken a relatively significant reform initiative to try to bring that economy back into eligibility for greater levels of partnership with world-leading economies.
This is an opportunity, I think, for Canada to really demonstrate leadership to help support that reform initiative.
To get to your question about what some of the historical challenges have been, the reality in mining is that minerals are in the ground. If you're going to develop a mine, you're going to spend a minimum of a billion dollars to dig a hole and extract those materials. Political uncertainty is a reality when you operate outside of a jurisdiction like Canada that is historically very politically stable. Investment protections, though they are seldom used, provide companies and investors, in particular, with a greater level of confidence that the particular investment will have a greater degree of security, a greater degree of reliability than comparable investment that's without those types of opportunities, those types of protections.
As a general principle, and for that potential for a stranded asset to move forward, the mining industry supports investment protection mechanisms in free trade agreements.