Certainly that's a live issue, as Mr. Nash has indicated, that we expect a number of provinces, particularly Quebec, will be bringing back to the discussion at the mines ministers conference.
It's a bit unfortunate that the previous effort to develop a national strategy was done first in isolation of the federal government, and you may recall that such issues as the Kimberley Process are a federal government responsibility for ensuring that we don't contribute to the blood diamond process, etc. So there are certain global initiatives that go to the heart of the responsibilities of the federal government. Consequently, in any re-examination of a national strategy, the federal government, in our view, has to be an equal partner in that process.
That being said, the real opportunity is in the future, because we will indeed have more diamond production in this country. We're already the third largest by value in terms of production. The ability to achieve further value-added is probably down in the jewellery end of things. We do have some cutting and polishing in Vancouver and we do note the Tiffany connection and Aber Resources' success in this area, and perhaps less success on the part of some of the operations in the Northwest Territories supported by the NWT government, at least to date.
The difficulty in all of this is how you do this without disrupting the normal customer connections that companies have, and how you manage this in a manner that will create the economic efficiencies and opportunities that are going to be sustainable, as opposed to subsidized and unsustainable. That's the key to this, and I'm sure those will be key questions in front of any future national diamond strategy discussion.