International Trade committee  Okay. I'll tell you about the project that I saw in great detail on the ground in Mozambique. First of all, we do this, in good part, to be competitive, because we couldn't possibly be competitive if we took thousands of workers from Canada to go and build an aluminum smelter in

International Trade committee  Yes, sorry.

International Trade committee  Well, the project is just at the beginning, and obviously we need our client to be aboard as well and to agree to proceed that way, which our client in that case has. Sorry, I've just forgotten for a minute the name of the Canadian mining company whose mine that is, but yes, we

International Trade committee  As I was saying before, this project in Panama has just been won and was just announced. It was a competitive project. Part of that will be our local resource development. We're doing that consistent with labour and also environmental objectives in the agreements that accompany t

International Trade committee  As I was saying, the 18 projects that we've actually completed there since 1975 were relatively small consulting contracts. They weren't construction. The answer is no, not that I've ever heard of. We haven't encountered any problems on the ground because they weren't that kind o

International Trade committee  You mean inserting in our commercial contract that we make with our client?

International Trade committee  I'm not a treaty lawyer. I don't know why they structured it that way. Whichever way it's structured, we'll live by whatever the provisions are, and I think we're already probably exceeding a lot of the generalities that are usually said in agreements like that. I'm sorry. I rea

International Trade committee  It is the same scenario. Hence it is a good reason for us to have an agreement when our competitors already have one. In Chile, we are ahead of the game because we got there before the Americans. It is an advantage for us to have agreements that provide us with the same level of

International Trade committee  No, but multiple-entry visas obviously make sense, and we're working with Immigration, with Minister Kenney, right now to see what progress can be made on this. It's very important.

International Trade committee  Before we initiate negotiations we do a very detailed analysis of the tax consequences. In our opinion, Panama sells goods and we sell services. This mine will not belong to us, it will belong to Inmet. We employ the engineers who will design and build the mine. Consequently, we

International Trade committee  Yes, but we are not participating in that project.

International Trade committee  No, we are not participating in it.

International Trade committee  Perhaps so, but this expansion project is already underway, and there are other companies that are involved.

International Trade committee  No, it does not fit into our current planning. But there are numerous other opportunities in this location in the mining, transportation or port sectors. For example, there is going to be a port close to this mine, and the other ports will have to be modernized to be able to impo

International Trade committee  Yes. You would have received...but maybe your staff didn't give it to you. About last May, we circulated a report we had done on business visas and the need for business visa facilitation. We had seven of the main business associations in the country--chief executives, CME, CCC,