I thank the witnesses for being here.
I want to start with Mr. Marshall about competitiveness. I noticed that Canadian mining companies spend an awful lot of money overseas. My father's family was from Kirkland Lake. There's big mining up there. I remember a few years ago, when there was all this talk about developing the Ring of Fire. It's kind of sad that there's a certain amount of wealth created through the value added, in other words, when you take the ore out and then you produce steel and put it into cars and that whole line across. It seems that we may be missing out because of maybe certain government policies that we put on our own Canadian companies versus what's out there in the rest of the world. I wonder if you could comment.
I think that Canadians think it's very important that you operate in a socially and environmentally responsible way and with respect for human rights, when you operate outside our country. However, as far as the competitiveness side of things, if Canadian government policy gives you too many unique Canadian regulations or priorities, whether it's gender or labour standards, how does that affect your ability to compete in other countries? When our competitors, like the Australians and maybe the Russians don't have the same mandates, while you have to operate in a certain box, by Canadian government standards, how does that affect your competitiveness?