 Since the accident in August of 2014, we've taken many steps to respond to the health and safety concerns and initiated three separate investigations. Two of those investigations, the independent panel of experts and the Chief Inspector of Mines were completed in 2015. Both concluded the same thing that the dam at Montpauly failed because of the strength and location of a layer of clay underneath the dam that was not taken into account in its original design. Both of those investigations have provided government with recommendations to prevent that sort of thing from happening again. There were seven recommendations. They were broken down into some sub-recommendations, but seven recommendations from the independent expert panel and 19 recommendations from the Chief Inspector of Mines investigation. We've committed, as you all know, to implementing all 26 of the combined recommendations. We've already made a lot of necessary changes that will help prevent an accident like what happened at Montpauly. In March 2016, we changed the Mines Act to strengthen compliance and enforcement. You remember the legislation we passed that created the authority for administrative penalties, which probably the Ministry ought to have had before that, but now at least we have it. We also, I think, importantly implemented a web-based record system that provides a lot better and easier access to the public so that they can review inspectors' reports and all of the other documentation that flows between the regulator and the mining industry. It was interesting for me after the accident happened to deal with the accusations that we were hiding things because documents weren't available. In my little ministry, there were people going through filing cabinets at three o'clock in the morning trying to find documentation that people were asking for, and it really and truly was not an issue of anybody trying to not allow the public to know what was happening in the industry between the mines and the regulator. It was a question of us having a very old and archaic filing system. In June of 2015, I appointed a Code Review Committee to determine how best to implement those seven expert panel recommendations and also the 19, later that year, the 19 recommendations from the Chief Inspector of Mines, that's the group that Naline worked on. This review was carried out by three separate committees. There's an overarching Code Review Committee chaired by the Chief Inspector of Mines, Mr. Hoffman, which included an equal number of representatives nominated by First Nations, mine labor unions, and industry. The Code actually prescribes this process for changing it. It is one of the few pieces of provincial legislation where there is a prescription written right into the legislation on how you go about changing it. So in other words, government doesn't just go and change it arbitrarily. I don't actually know if there are other pieces of legislation like that, and it requires government to work with the unions and with the mining companies to make sure that the changes that are being proposed make sense and will work well. And of course, what we did this time around was to add an opportunity for First Nations people, First Nations governments to be involved in this process. We actually sent out a request to every First Nation that has a mine operating in their traditional territory, and we sent that same request to Dave Porter from the First Nations Energy and Mining Council and said, you know, who would you recommend to be on this, to be doing this work on this panel? And names came back and I don't want to embarrass Nalene, but Nalene Moran had the highest number of recommendations. There were more people who wanted to see her put on this group than anybody else. So that was the overarching Code Review Committee. The two subcommittees that provide technical reviews for the tailing storage facilities and the health and safety sections of the Code. So we split the job of reviewing a Code and making recommendations for changes. One piece being the tailing storage facility. That piece is what we're talking about today. We're done with that. And then there's the health and safety section of the Code that they're beginning to work on now. So we're here to announce the TSF tailing storage facility portion of the Code Review. It is finished. It means that we have implemented all seven recommendations for tailing storage facilities that the independent expert panel gave us. The Code Review Committee worked for more than a year to develop these necessary changes. These changes ensure that the mining code now includes design standards for TSFs that are tailored to the particular conditions encountered in BC. The changes for TSFs and dam safety emphasize the protection of the public and the environment. Updates to the TSF portion of the mining code include, El Hoffman will go into a bit more detail here, but they include new design and operations criteria for TSFs. And El will tell you about that. There's a little more prescription in the Code today about things like factor safety than there were before. Minimum static factor safety is something that's prescribed. Requiring water balance and water management plans for TSFs, you remember at Mont Pauly, they get a lot of, it's not just the water that's produced through the mining process. It's the water that comes from the sky and the snow that comes that creates issues for mines in terms of what do you do with all that water in addition to the water that's produced by the mining process. So, requiring water balance and water management plans for TSFs is something else that we now have in the Code and requiring mines with tailing storage facilities to establish independent tailings review boards. That now is prescribed in the Code and I believe there is only one other jurisdiction in the world that prescribes those boards and that is the state of Montana. And I won't say more about that. Slide six, with these updates along with the upcoming new site characterization guidelines from the Association of Professional Engineers and Geoscientists of BC, we can now have confidence that our standards for tailing storage facilities are as good as exists anywhere in the world. I asked Mr. Hoffman before we came down here if through all of the cross jurisdictional analysis that's been done since 2014 and before that and given his understanding of how regulators do business elsewhere in Canada and the United States and in other countries whether he really believes that we do have the best process now given these changes and I'll let him answer that question but he said yes. So on that natural segue I think I'll turn it over to the Chief Inspector of Mines, Al Hoffman. Thank you Minister Bennett. Good afternoon. My name is Al Hoffman. I'm the Chief Inspector of Mines and I also chaired the Code Review Committee over the past year. As Minister Bennett mentioned our ministry has been working very hard to complete this portion of the Code Review so I'd like to take a moment to go through each of the Independent Engineers Panel seven recommendations and explain what actions our ministry has taken in response. So recommendation one implementing best available technology or BAT using a phased approach including using filtered tailings or dry stack technology which is one of the examples they used where it is appropriate. We've created new requirements to ensure Mines Act applications include alternative assessment which considers best available technology for tailings management and storage. In March of 2015 the Environmental Assessment Office as well has also required new mine projects to provide an alternative assessment which considers BAT for tailings management. Recommendation two improving corporate governance. Corporations proposing to operate a TSF should be obliged to commit to a program for tailings management which includes an audit function. And in our Code Review we've updated the requirements to ensure that all mines in BC maintain a tailings management system that includes regular system audits and the one that we're looking at and it is being currently reviewed is the one by the Mining Association of Canada towards sustainable mining programs but there's others available as well. Recommendation three expanding corporate design commitments. Future permit applications for a new TSF will have considered all technical environmental social and economic aspects of the project to support an investment decision. In our response in order to demonstrate the selection of best available technology inclusion of an alternative assessment will now be required in all Mines Act permit applications that include one or more tailings storage facility. This assessment shall provide a comparative analysis of options considering the following sustainability factors environment, society, and economics. Changes to Part 10 of the Code also require updates to the Mines Act permit application to provide a declaration of quantifiable performance objectives and include a proposed program for prediction identification and management of physical, chemical, and other risks associated with tailings storage facilities and dams. As I mentioned before the BC Environmental Assessment Office has also established additional information requirements in order to evaluate tailings management options for proposed major mines in BC. Recommendation four enhanced validation of safety and regulations of all phases of the tailings storage facility. Increasing the utilization of independent tailings review boards. We will now require all existing mines in BC with TSF to establish an independent tailings review review board by December 31, 2016. In addition the terms of reference and the proposed membership of the independent review board must be approved myself as the Chief Inspector of Mines and each mine will be required to submit an annual report that includes an overview of its independent tailings review boards activities and these will be all posted online. The report will include a summary of the reviews completed by the RTRB that year, whether the work received or reviewed rather meant that the ITRB's expectations of good practice and any conditions that compromise TSF integrity or occurrences of non-compliance with recommendations from the engineer of record. Recommendation five strengthening current regulatory operations that is determining if other tailings storage facilities have similar risks to those found at Mount Pauley. So we immediately addressed that. I as the Chief Inspector ordered mines to undertake an assessment to see if any of the dams associated with their TSFs may be at risk too. First of all an undrained sheer failure of a silt and clay foundation and whether a glacial accustry in materials or GLU as you're all familiar with similar flows of Mount Pauley exist below any of their dams. Secondly they were required to assess their water balance adequacy and outline their current and long-term water management plans and third look at filter adequacy. So that was to identify internal erosion prevention methods and other means to prevent piping and cracking through the dam. The order applied to the 38 BC mines with an operating TSF or a non-operating TSF with a dam safety classification of significant or higher. We completed our review of these assessments of October 2015 and they are all available online. Recommendation 6, improving professional practice. And the recommendation is to encourage the association of professional engineers and geosciences of BC develop guidelines that would lead to improved site characterization for tailings dams. We're very happy to announce that APIG BC has completed the review of site characterization guidelines and they will be available hopefully by mid-August. These take into account the geomorphological, hydrogeological and seismotechnonic characteristics of a site. And recommendation 7, improving dam safety guidelines. The recommendation was to develop guidelines that are tailored to the conditions encountered within TSF and BC and emphasize protection of the public. In response, the mining code now includes design standards for TSFs that are tailored to the conditions encountered here in BC and then emphasize protecting public safety including TSF requirements for the steepness of downstream slopes, a minimum static factor of safety, new seismic and flood design criteria, and define rules and responsibilities for the engineer of record including a duty to report to the regulator concerning any concerns related to safety. Existing mines in BC must immediately make any and all necessary changes to comply with the code with the following exceptions. Mine managers have until September 30th of 2016 to designate and notify the chief inspector of record with respect to the engineer of record retained by the mine and designated a TSF qualified person for safe management of all TSFs. So that's an individual who works at the mine site who will have that responsibility. Additionally, we're giving mine managers until December 31st, 2016 to have a water balance and water management plan prepared by qualified person. We'll have in place quantifiable performance objectives developed by the mines engineer of record and the TSF qualified person. There must be an ITR be established and to ensure adequate training of employees on the mine site all staff involved in the operations of the TSF or dam are trained and qualified based on the operations maintenance and surveillance manual for the TSF. In closing, through these revisions to the mining code, government has addressed 20 of the combined 26 recommendations from the independent expert panel and the chief inspector of mines report. The remaining CIM recommendations will be complete by the summer of 2017. Government is accepted is working on this also working on the 17 recommendations from the auditor general's report. I want to take this opportunity to thank all the ministry staff and the members of the code review committees, both the main code and the tailing subcommittee who have worked so hard and so diligently over the past year. I'll now turn things back over to Minister Bennett. Thank you very much, L. So we're not done overall. We still have those six recommendations from the chief inspector of mines report to implement and we have some of the recommendations from the auditor general that we'll need to do some more work on as well. I think, yeah, I should remind you that the health and safety portion of the code review is going to be ongoing and it'll continue through this year and we have a target for all the revisions to the code dealing with health and safety to be done and enforced by early 2017. The public will have an opportunity to be involved in that. Actually, there's a comment period that will go till the end of September. Like Mr. Hoffman, I just want to thank everyone who served on this code review committee and continues to serve on the code review committee and in particular the tailings technical review subcommittee. It was a lot of work but we're in, I think, a very good position now so I'm going to stop there and thank you for bearing with the presentation from Al and I and we'll take questions from the media.