I think there are a couple of points that I would offer for the committee's consideration for that question. The first is that Canadian companies have been operating internationally for decades. They've been operating in different continents around the world. There's a heavy concentration of Canadian companies that operate in Latin America. Since companies began operating and investing internationally, there have been significant policy changes across the federal and provincial context within Canada. What I'm underscoring there is that policy is not the only driver for investment competitiveness.
To come back to your point, our members currently feel that there's reasonably significant policy uncertainty in the Canadian context that is having an adverse effect on Canada's competitiveness as a destination for mineral investment. That said, two years into the government's mandate, we also believe that this is a decision year for a number of these areas where consultations have been ongoing and decisions will be forthcoming in the relatively near term. Other companies and MAC, or parties generally speaking, will start to get a clearer sense on the direction the government intends to go, in areas like regulatory reform, climate change, taxation, etc.
We're keenly monitoring these developments and engaging actively in these spaces. We're hopeful that the input we've been providing in these consultations has been considered. We're hopeful for a coordinated, thoughtful rollout of the key policies that we anticipate coming forward. We feel that a great deal depends on it.
As I mentioned, mining is a truly pan-Canadian industry. Companies operate from coast to coast to coast and in remote northern regions. It's a significant employer. It's a core driver of indigenous economic reconciliation. It's the largest proportional industrial employer of indigenous Canadians across the country. Particularly in that space, we would offer that the industry is a platform that the government can leverage to better achieve the goals that it has set for itself with respect to indigenous reconciliation. However, we also understand that balancing investment attractiveness and the ability of mining companies to do mining is an important piece in order to achieve that objective.