Human Resources committee  I can comment briefly on the experience in Labrador. We have no immediately adjacent community, but we have about seven communities that we interact with, the closest being about 40 kilometres away from our site. We're a fly-in, fly-out site. What we're seeing is that most of the aboriginals who are working with us are living in their home communities.

Human Resources committee  Our experience is a little bit of both. The thing you have to understand about mining is that it takes a long time to get a project started. In our case, in Labrador, it was about 10 years from when we discovered the property to when we could actually break ground. In that 10 years we spent a lot of time in the communities doing what I call missionary work, making sure that the communities understood what the opportunities were and what our requirements were.

Human Resources committee  Our working assumption is that all will be awarded to aboriginal businesses. Our procurement model requires, and our contractual agreement with the aboriginals requires, that we bring all business opportunities to them first. They've been able to develop, over time, relationships with non-aboriginal businesses that have expertise in areas that we require to support our operations.

Human Resources committee  Thank you. Most of the businesses that support our operations are joint ventures. When we signed the IBAs, it was very clear in terms of the commitment that the company had given to the aboriginals that all business opportunities flowing from our operations would be given first, as a priority, to aboriginal companies.