The emotional attachment you have to your sports heroes.

Yeah, and I mean, that is the fan's perspective, right? And I can see why fans feel that way.

I've got family members that are die-hard, die-hard fans.

Like, that go to games on Saturday nights when the blue and white takes over CTC and just, like, they're looking for arguments all night.

And they, like, this is, it's irrational, really.

But, You know, I played and I was, you know, I grew up, we're all kind of in that same generational gap where it was like, you know, the Sens kept getting beat by the Leafs and the Sens are so good.

And why can they not get through the Leafs? And then I end up getting drafted by the Leafs and it's like, well, I guess I'm not cheering for the Sens anymore.

Well...

What are you

doing? What? Are you reading clippings from 25? Are you on HF boards 25 years ago? Listen to the trade rumors here.

And then it was followed by the TSN notification.

It was like, oh, kid's right.

I did not see that coming at all.

And obviously, Alfred had interviewed for the head coaching job, and there's certainly ties with Matt's.

But I, you know, objectively, I can see why it happened.

The emotional attachment you have to your sports heroes.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Yes.

And that's how it all come about.

I, I raced at about 14.

Um-... was pretty good at it.

Um, got to A grade really quickly.

Um, loved it, absolutely loved it.

I know that.

I guess before we get started, maybe you can tell us a bit more about West Kitikmeot Corporation and the group that it represents, and then we can get into the nuts and bolts of the project.

I'll skip a lot of the background, but tell you that West Kitikmeot Resources is ... largest shareholder are the Kitikmeot Inuit people of the Kitikmeot region of Nunavut.

We started life as a mineral explorer with a package of primarily gold properties, and the gold properties were selected by the Inuit along this future infrastructure corridor that we now know as the Arctic Economic Security Corridor, recently and newly rebranded.

Much more exciting title than the Grays Bay Road and Port.

So they selected these gold properties, I assembled some investment and a management team, and we were going to develop them, only to find out that KIA, who were the proponent of the infrastructure project, were gonna take a pass on role as proponent, and were looking for a new proponent.

We, given that we'd just staked this ground and had this territory, put our hands up and said-

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