Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I appreciate the question from the Member. Of course, yes, I will take the leadership of bringing these two companies together. We'll sit down with the top leadership in the mine to better understand their feelings of how this arrangement is working. I should mention that in Antwerp, of course, core customers get an allocation of rough. Again, they have no choice but to take all of it and have to pay cash right now. I think the mines have been very agreeable to the idea that this was an industry in its infancy. They have held parcels, sometimes for quite long periods of time, waiting for the cutting and polishing factories to get the money together to buy the parcels. I think, for the most part, the arrangement and the relationships have been very, very good between the mines and the cutting and polishing industry. We now have this one issue of dispute around pricing and look to resolve it as quickly as possible. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.
Brendan Bell on Question 344-15(4): Support For Northern Diamond Polishing Facilities
In the Legislative Assembly on February 6th, 2006. See this statement in context.
Further Return To Question 344-15(4): Support For Northern Diamond Polishing Facilities
Question 344-15(4): Support For Northern Diamond Polishing Facilities
Item 6: Oral Questions
February 5th, 2006
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