I noted that previous testimony was done on the Borden gold project, where they're planning an electric mine, Canada's first electric mine. That mine is actually about five kilometres from one of the communities of the Wabun Tribal Council. As a matter of fact, the mine footprint goes underneath the lake where we draw our drinking water for our first nations' water treatment facility.
Socio-economic conditions at Brunswick House are horrid. With the downturn in the forestry industry in Ontario for the last 20 years, it's been an awful market. They experience from 90% to 95% unemployment, high incidences of drug abuse, social issues, low education achievements.
However, the good news is the Borden mine and our conversations with Goldcorp at that mine are providing a whole lot of hope for that particular community. The community members are completely engaged, from the youth to the elders, in working alongside Goldcorp in developing the agreement, and not only just developing the agreement but working immediately to start education programs, to start understanding some of the social impacts of substance abuse. How do we work through those issues, with Goldcorp, to get the people to work there?
Our expectation is to have at least 50% employment from the communities in that area from our first nations. Again, we worked early, often, hard. Goldcorp is a great partner of ours. We have two existing impact benefit agreements at other sites in the Timmins area with them. We're continuing that success at Borden.