Okay. Great.
This aspect is really important, because we heard earlier that Canadian mining companies could possibly have a competitive disadvantage if they were held to a higher standard by Canada. Mr. Thomson very clearly said, in fact, that they would have a better chance of accessing ore bodies if they were held to a higher standard in Canada.
What we're starting to see is that countries are trying to get rid of Canadian mining companies because of the harm that they've caused. In Papua New Guinea, for example, there's a Canadian mine there called the Porgera mine. It's another Barrick gold mine. Barrick operated there for over 20 years. When the lease came up for renewal, the Papua New Guinean government said no. There have been so many human rights abuses and there's been so much environmental damage. The waste from that mine goes directly into a river system. There's no impoundment; there's no containment at all. There also have been egregious human rights abuses at that mine, so the Papua New Guinean government said, no, it was not going to renew the lease.
You would think that a sovereign government would have the right to decide not to renew a lease when the lease has come up and has been finalized. Barrick fought this first in the courts in Papua New Guinea and then filed an ISDS case with the World Bank. Thereby, it forced the hand of a very poor government. When the Papua New Guinean government finally said, “Okay, fine; we'll renew your lease”, it actually said that it didn't have the resources to fight this legal battle. This is very problematic.