There are a couple of things that may be helpful to the committee.
We don't control the world price of diamonds, tungsten, gold, or what not. What we can do to help private sector investors decide whether they want to pursue projects or not is lay on the science. As you know, in the north we barely scratched the surface on actually doing basic surveying and prospecting and knowing what's up there. Most of the focus that our colleagues at NRCan and others have done over the last few years is on the mapping, chartings, and getting the baseline in. Going with that is the environmental monitoring so you know what sort of ecosystem is up there if mining is introduced into it. I try to call it laying the foundation for that. The decisions on specific projects are going to be private sector investment decisions, whether to pursue it or not. How much public governments reap as benefits from that are a matter of fiscal arrangements between the federal government and the territories that are set by the Minister of Finance, and you know that debate very well. I think the best thing we can do is lay in really good baseline science for people to make smart decisions.