We're not in a bear market anymore. The mining industry went four or almost five years in a downturn, and that pretty much ended in January this year. Certainly gold and silver prices have gone up 30%, and most precious metals companies have raised a lot of capital that they needed to, and they're making money again.
I think this is going to be another long-term trend. This is, again, one of these cyclical turns that we see. This is a fact of our industry, and it has been forever. Some members of the base metal industry and the ferrous metal industry are in trouble. Iron ore is in trouble, and coal is in trouble; at least thermal coal, which makes electricity, is pretty much a dead business now. On coking coal, prices have doubled or tripled in the last few months, so all of a sudden the companies like Teck that were in trouble are now really doing well. This is how quickly things change.
As I said, I think that's just a natural part of our business. Good companies manage their business accordingly, and bad companies don't, and that presents opportunities, challenges, and advantages.
These are things that government really can't do much about.