I believe that companies are getting better and better with experience, with some setbacks and some successes. I believe that those relationships are developing and they are deepening as they must do if we're going to be moving on together. It's up to the companies and the regulator, as they prepare their applications, as those applications are assessed, to know that the evidence we are assessing as a government includes the evidence of indigenous cultural background and values.
I am quite optimistic, through my conversations with industry leaders, and at these round tables that we were talking about a few minutes ago, at which indigenous leaders, environmental activists, and industry leaders are together for a number of hours. Sometimes they've never spent any time together. What they're hearing about cultural practice might be for the first time, or expressed in a far more eloquent way than I can by those who feel the generational importance of these natural resource projects and decisions.
If we can generalize, I think that Canadians are open and diverse in our backgrounds. We embrace difference and I'm hopeful that the kinds of differences that you and I are articulating now will be seen as a strength for the country and a strength for the resource sector in Canada.