I am doing the best I can to try to be respectful to the interpreters, because I could bring a little more fire and brimstone, but I like to keep things on a bit more of a calm, even keel. That's more my demeanor. I'll leave it to my friend and colleague from Battle River—Crowfoot to bring the gusto. There are other colleagues who can do that. That's not me. This is more my pace. I'm more of a laid-back guy. I know that might make it hard to sit and listen for this long, but I have my points to make and I will continue to make them.
On the point of relevance, the news article was from Timmins, actually. As far as relevance goes, it was from the riding that the subamendment we are debating today is about. I think I've done a pretty good job of staying on point the entire time, although we went here and there a bit on a few things.
I'm not sure what that noise is, but that's okay.
There are lots of other good mining projects in the region that are still going through the assessment process. For this other project, the initial capital cost was $972 million. They're putting a ton of money on the line for this project and they're looking for some certainty. They want certainty. They want to know that when they apply—actually, they did apply—the assessment is going to come to a rapid conclusion.
There's a time extension. There's been an extension to 2025 on the Springpole gold project. Something we've seen quite regularly from the government is extending deadlines on their end of things and taking as long as possible to complete the assessment. We have seen companies back out of projects. Teck famously did that after multiple delays. After they sank millions of dollars into the whole process, they just walked away from it. That doesn't send a very good signal to industry that this country is open for business. Unconstitutional acts don't send a signal to investors to come and invest in Timmins—James Bay. When we have an issue with an Impact Assessment Act that is unconstitutional, that's a problem.
There's another gold mine project in the region of Timmins—James Bay. We're talking of 400 to 600 operational jobs. If these projects can't get the certainty they need to proceed.... These are big projects that will be of the utmost importance to our country becoming the world leader it should be in the development of resources and the export of resources. We can and we should lead the world. We have that opportunity. We should take that advantage. We should use it to our advantage. We should take control of that.