It is doing it by having important conversations with communities that are affected by projects, and by understanding the impact of those projects on indigenous practices and indigenous ways.
It's been remarkable as I travel across the country talking to people in the sector and people within indigenous communities and in other communities. No one has really reached out to them before. It is not always a part of a regulator's mandate to reach out. But if we don't reach out, between regulators and governments, to have these kinds of conversations that matter to people, it's very unlikely that we're going to have a successful result.
Personally, Mr. Chair, I'm optimistic. I'm optimistic mostly because of the kind of response and energy I have seen in these roundtables where indigenous leaders, environmentalists, and business leaders are sitting around the same table at the same time talking about the same thing, and in large measure, are ending up at the same place. It is our job to create a set of conditions where that can happen, which I think is the best way to find ways of moving our natural resources sustainably.
The principles will underpin that. Public confidence will be earned by the living-out of these principles by the regulator, by community leaders, and by government. It's our hope that at the end of the process, we'll end up at a better place than we are coming from.