Thank you, Mr. Chairman.
I'll answer the most straightforward question first.
All jurisdictions in Canada, with the exception of Prince Edward Island, have geological survey organizations of one form or another.
As we introduced previously, it's the intergovernmental geoscience accord that guides those bilateral or in some cases trilateral discussions between ourselves and the jurisdictional surveys as to who does what. One distinguishing factor is, effectively, scale or resolution of mapping. We do the broadly regional scale work. That work is done completely south of 60, largely. The provinces work on the next generation of detail. We can always go back and look in more detail. We can map things at the scale of this room as opposed to the scale of the city of Ottawa, for example. The provinces do the more detailed work.
The discussions take place bilaterally, between ourselves. They also occur in group when the national geological surveys committee meets twice per year.
I will build upon a point Dr. Gray has introduced. GEM is our flagship program under the northern strategy to address those areas of Canada where the basic framework mapping is not adequate to support private sector investment. We do have a suite of other geoscience programs, including a climate change geoscience program that is functioning largely in the north. We have a groundwater geoscience program that's mapping groundwater aquifers across Canada, so we're working south of 60 exclusively in that case. We have a program called the targeted geoscience initiative, which is operating dominantly south of 60, across all of the other jurisdictions on areas where there's sufficient existing knowledge that there has been significant production in various parts of those jurisdictions. That production is in decline. By working with the provincial jurisdictions, largely, and the private sector we're trying to develop new models and new exploration techniques to allow them to vector towards more deeply buried, more hidden ore deposits. So we are working from coast to coast to coast with our suite of programs. The GEM program itself is dominantly targeted north of 60.