 One of the most telling statements about this entire event was a quote, and I will quote Mr. Justice Peter Richard. He said, this is a story of incompetence, of mismanagement, of bureaucratic bungling, of deceit, of ruthlessness, of cover-up, of apathy, of expediency, and of cynical indifference. End of the quote. And you know, the more you study and look at the situation, you came to understand that he was so right in his assessment of what had gone on. So they started the mine in September of 1991, and once the mine opened, I guess there were some pretty early warning signs of the problems that were about to ultimately be pursued, because what happened was they had a few roof falls. They had problems with, as I say, no emergency plan, and the provincial authorities started to observe that this was happening. And you know, at one point they even said they were going to pull the permit on the mine, and that would be the provincial authorities. But as it went on, the next thing that seemed to be a problem in the mine was the amount of coal dust that was allowed to accumulate. And as one learns, coal dust is a very explosive type of particle once it's been suspended. And especially when you combine it with almost like an ignition stage in methane gas. So if it lights, you have this incredible potential for explosion. And in this process, I think that everyone came to the understanding that we were dealing in a very dangerous commodity. And yet at the same time, and I heard rumors personally from people later that in order to keep the mine going and to keep everything operating, that there were actually attempts at taking devices that were to stop vehicles from operating when methane gas got too high in its concentration, that they were being modified so that they could carry on and work. And that to me, I don't know whether it was fact, but certainly was rumored from people I spoke with during this process. And you could understand because everyone was caught between trying to be safe and go home at night and yet at the same time make a living and not be shut down or find that the mine itself would close. So a lot of conflicting positions, everyone cheering for them to go forward and yet at the same time knowing that they were working really on a precipice that if anything did go wrong, it would be serious consequences. And the provincial government even came along and at one point asked that they get rid of this coal dust and they have it stone dusted, which is taking another aggregate ground up and it somehow minimized the amount of coal dust that would be in the air. But then the mine was only open for eight months, which is quite amazing. And then of course on May the 9th of 1992, the report is that a mining machine ignited methane gas and the methane gas then combined with the coal dust and had this enormous explosion. But 26 miners being killed and only 15 bodies ever being recovered. They finally just entombed the rest and left them there. And yet the mine manager right after the explosion was making a statement publicly that this was as safe a mine as there is. Well, I think ultimately that was proven not to be so. In 1993, the RCMP did lay criminal charges of manslaughter and criminal negligence causing death and they charged both the company and two mine managers, as I recall. And the trial on that, now we're now speaking in 1995. So it was two years after that, but the trial started and it wasn't very long before those charges were stayed because in fact there had been legal imperfections, in particular there hadn't been proper disclosure between the defense and crown. So those charges were gone. So here we are in 1995 with no provincial charges having been successfully followed through because they were withdrawn. We have the criminal charges that are thrown out by the court. And now the only way we're going to find any hope of resolution and I suppose responsibility being assessed is only through Mr. Justice Richard's inquiry. In 1992, the explosion and its aftermath was significant. But one of his recommendations, Mr. Peter Richard was recommendation number 73, in which he really asked the government of Canada through the Department of Justice Institute of Study on Accountability for Corporate Executives and Directors for wrongful or negligent acts of a corporation and that we should introduce through the Parliament of Canada a process whereby we would modify the criminal code or other other statutes as necessary in order to make the workplace and the owners and operators of those workplaces properly accountable for workplace safety. And I think that was what really triggered, I think, a great deal of the ultimate process in Parliament.