Thank you, Mr. Chair, and welcome to guests. Thanks for all this very interesting information.
I have a question for Mr. Cavan about first nations involvement in prospecting and the capacity of local communities to make use of all this great information. We heard about an array of information, and there were so many acronyms I can't get through them all myself.
It looks like the development of mines in the north is a top-down process, essentially. Companies gather this information and make pitches to local communities. I'm wondering what could be done to make this more of a bottom-up process. As I said in the last committee meeting, a lot of the best projects in British Columbia have been developed in concert with local first nations, if not driven by local first nations.
Do you see a way that local and northern aboriginal communities could make use of this information to perhaps develop projects that are more ground up rather than top down?