Thank you for allowing me to be part of this today. I did serve on this committee before, for 18 months, but after the last election I moved to veterans affairs. It's good to be back here.
Thank you for coming today.
Mr. Peeling, I want to thank you for your March 17 press release that mentions an issue that you've already brought up here today. That's the ongoing dispute between Kitchenuhmaykoosib Inninuwug and Platinex. I want to read a couple of your words at the end here, that these outcomes “are achieved through dialogue and respect, not the courts”. I wish that were the case with Platinex.
I'd just ask you to elaborate a little bit on the difficulties that are going on there. Your association has probably a lot to say about how we can improve these things. This dispute that you mentioned, and that I've just brought up from your press release, has the ability to blow everything out of proportion and make it very difficult for us to move forward.