Being from British Columbia I'm not a regular member of this committee, but I'm happy to be here today with the Mining Association of British Columbia here. My riding has the Bralorne mine up in the northern part of that. There's talk of the reopening of Carolin mine in the Hope area because of the price of gold. Definitely the people of Hope are hoping for that because they've seen, as natural resource jobs have dried up over the years, an actual reduction in the number of people living in their community. So there's great hope in the north of my riding for economic development from natural resource development, and certainly they've welcomed the changes in Bill C-38.
I wanted to talk to you about the National Energy Board review process. We've heard, on the long end, things like the Mackenzie Valley pipeline, and how many years that took to go through. I'm wondering if you can give some examples of the lengthy National Energy Board review process and whether you think that 24 months is a sufficient time for public input, scientific review, industry input, and what effect that will have on the mining industry in British Columbia.