In the departmental plan for Natural Resources Canada, under investment in natural resource sectors, you have stated that your department's target for a five-year average growth rate of capital expenditures for minerals and metals is for it to be equal to or greater than the past five-year average.
Under the minerals and metals sector capital expenditures, your numbers show that in year 2013-14, the capital expenditures for minerals and metals were 16.1%. In 2015-16, the capital expenditures were -2.6%. To what does your department attribute the downturn in capital expenditures in the minerals and metals sector?