Thank you, Madam Chair. Madam Chair, there's -- I think there is a lot of good news right now in terms of exploration. You know, even the large diamond mines where you might think there's no more exploration happening are also looking at exploration programs on their properties potentially. There's some discussion of whether there's opportunities for them there. There's lots of opportunities happening in the gold sector, rather a bit to my surprise. I have to say I was quite struck at the amount of exploration happening in terms of gold. And then of course, rare earths and critical minerals and metals, kind of all over the news but this is also an opportunity for us here in the Northwest Territories. So as those commodity prices all go up, that only makes us more attractive where, notwithstanding the high costs, it starts to make sense economically for those projects to be looking here given the strength of the sector that we have, given the strength of the geology. So I do expect this will be oversubscribed. It always has been oversubscribed, even with the increase, and that is a good news story at the end of the day, given the leveraging that happens. Thank you, Madam Chair.
Caroline Wawzonek on Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters
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