To my knowledge, the issue with that area is that the monies collected from mining firms based on royalties are not equivalent to the actual product being pulled out of the ground. We all know these are non-renewable products. Once you move that rock, it ain't coming back for millions and millions of years—probably never.
It's not like a renewable source, where it will grow and eventually benefit the communities again. It doesn't do that once it's gone, so there has to be some type of compensation for municipal governments, because the roads are destroyed by the big trucks and everything, and also for provincial governments, because they give permits to allow that activity, under the mandate of the Constitution.
We have to make sure these big corporations now coming into Canada pay the government to provide for you, the federal government and the big infrastructure needed for those areas to flourish. Without that money being available, it's hard to do.
We all know that companies profit largely from mining resources. When the price is high, their profits go beyond the scope of imagination. Very few of them stay within Canada, because they're all global corporations. A lot of the time the profits end up in other countries instead of our communities. That has to be changed. The only way to do that, as we see it, is to establish a national strategy that forces those big corporations to do all these steps in order for them to do business in Canada.