Finance committee  The support for the cooperative geological mapping strategies program that I asked for, first of all, was approved by the mines ministers six years ago and hasn't received the funding. And it will garner matching funds from the provinces and territories and will mostly be directed in the north.

Finance committee  Thank you very much. The Prospectors and Developers Association of Canada represents 6,000 members, including 5,300 individual and 700 corporate members. The majority of our corporate members are small and medium-sized enterprises—in our lingo, called junior exploration companies.