Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Thanks to all the witnesses for your testimony today.
I'll come back to you, Mr. Batise, so that you can expand on more of what Mr. McLeod was asking in a couple of specific questions.
I hope that we have time with Mr. Mell, because the ability for 375,000 people to remain employed in the mining sector in Canada and to increase those numbers depends on the ability for these projects to be financed and developed in the first place. I hope that you'll have some time to expand more on the issues that you were discussing in your presentation.
Thank you for confirming the importance of the mineral exploration tax credit in your discussion about the flow through shares. Given the starkness of what you've presented to us today, about the more than 1,000 mineral explorers with the highest risk and the least financing available—which is really the foundation of the mining sector and the 100 developers and the 200 producers beyond that—I think it's very important for us to get a sense from you if you have any reflections on any other specific financial measures or tax incentives that could be considered, either federally or provincially, to enhance investment in mining exploration in the first place and also long term mineral development, and if you have any views on global competitiveness or reflections from other jurisdictions that legislators in Canada may want to consider.