Looks at the Whitehorse Mining Initiative (WMI), an effort by the Canadian mineral industry to forge alliances with other groups in order to revitalize the mineral industry, attract new investment, and create agreement among major stakeholders such as the government and environmental groups, First Nations, the mining industry, and labor. Describes the implementation of WMI, discussing the changing public policy environment, the growing use of alternative dispute resolution, the challenges posed by consensus-based processes in developing a common vision, and the implications of such processes for representative democracy. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR