I have a good example for you. It's the Red Dog mine in Alaska, a zinc mine owned by the Canadian company Teck Resources. I think that it started production 30 years ago.
At first, the mine didn't have any infrastructure at all. The government at the time, with the help of the Infrastructure Bank, built a port and a road to serve the mine. The mine paid for access to these two pieces of infrastructure. This has paid off significantly 30 years later. As a result, the company has been able to move forward with its mining project.
Let's take another example. A number of critical mineral projects in Nunavut are somewhat similar to zinc and copper mining projects. We're familiar with these projects. They have been around for 60 or 70 years. The projects are still there, but nothing has been built given the lack of infrastructure. Yet there are a number of mining projects. If they were served by a port and a road, as in the case of the Alaska mining project, this infrastructure would make it possible to carry out projects in Nunavut. The road and port project in Grays Bay could help a number of mining projects move forward. That's what it takes. A zone or a region where a number of projects are under way at the same time, with the potential for multiple clients, such as in northwestern British Columbia or the Labrador Trough.
Other northern regions, such as Val‑d'Or, could use infrastructure to transform the economic situation of gold and copper mining projects.