As you are no doubt aware, there is a dire situation occurring now in Ecuador which is severely impacting thousands of Canadian investors. The Ecuadorian government has arbitrarily and very suddenly revoked thousands of mining concessions without compensation. Most people would call this outright theft.

Many of these concessions have been worked by upstanding Canadian corporations like Aurelian Resources,

Corriente Resources, Dynasty Metals etc. These companies have spent millions upon millions on infrastructure

in Ecuador (well paying jobs, churches, schools, airports etc etc). Now all this as well as any future foreign investment

in Ecuador is in very serious jeopardy unless immediate action is taken. On top of this they have placed a 180 day

moratorium on any mining work whatsoever.

I implore you on behalf of hard working investors in this country to immediately take action on this to help reverse this

decision.

Thank you in advance.