Thanks for the question.
MiningWatch formally is a coalition of 20 different organizations, including first nations, conservation groups, faith groups, human rights groups, and international development groups. We get our mandate partly from those groups, but also partly from communities that approach us, largely to help them explore mining issues. We engage when we are asked to engage on specific projects. That may be at the exploration phase. We may help, for example, the Barriere Lake Algonquins to say no to an exploration project on their traditional territory because the federal and Quebec governments have not respected an agreement that they've had going for 20 years now.
We respond to requests. That's how we become engaged. That may be anywhere in the cycle but more typically at the stages from exploration to new mines, not so much operating mines, though it could well be at that stage. Also, we get involved around mine closure. So it's right across the mining sequence.
As to whether we have any power or not, we have some. We gain most of our power through networks by taking principled positions and by using the media, approaching investors, and things such as that.