Foreign Affairs committee  Certainly, smaller companies don't have the capacity themselves to manage the multiple kinds of things they have to manage now. Not only do we need people who understand geology and some of the basics of the business, but we need anthropologists and environmental specialists. It'

Foreign Affairs committee  We were not consulted.

Foreign Affairs committee  My experience has certainly been that, given support and offered a constructive space for dialogue and solution and resolution, companies that I have worked with would choose that every time. It doesn't make sense for them not to avail themselves of a process like that. They take

Foreign Affairs committee  One of the most important things we've learned in working with first nations in B.C. in particular is that where there is a great deal of fluidity in terms of jurisdiction, decision-making, issues management, and all kinds of things--and we have been working in that area for quit

Foreign Affairs committee  Perhaps I should clarify. I wasn't arguing that there should be no sanctions at all--

Foreign Affairs committee  What I'm suggesting is that sanctions not be the first line of response, that there be--

Foreign Affairs committee  I believe there should be sanctions at the end of the day.

Foreign Affairs committee  No. I'm not agreeing with Bill C-300 at the end of the day. What I'm saying is that there is I think the most consensus we've ever had on a lot of these issues emerging through the work that the UN special representative is doing.

Foreign Affairs committee  Thank you. Thank you for inviting us to join you, and I apologize; I've had the trip on which everything that could go wrong has gone wrong. I'm running. I work with the Association for Mineral Exploration B.C. I work out of our Vancouver office. What I really wanted to do toda