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Subcommittee of the Standing Committee on Finance on Bill C-38 committee Thank you very much, Mr. Chair. Good evening, ladies and gentlemen. Thank you for the invitation to comment on Bill C-38. Thanks very much for inviting me to appear at this subcommittee and to discuss the implications of Bill C-38 on responsible resource development in Canada
May 28th, 2012Committee meeting
Jayson Myers
Subcommittee of the Standing Committee on Finance on Bill C-38 committee With respect to your first question, and building on what Mr. Collyer said, the issues around investment and the mobility of capital today are issues that affect resource development in every sector: resources, upgrading those resources, infrastructure development, and manufactur
May 28th, 2012Committee meeting
Jayson Myers
Subcommittee of the Standing Committee on Finance on Bill C-38 committee I think probably Denise is in a better position to give you an example of how much might be expended on a nuclear project. Let me say, with respect to some smaller enterprises, that we'll not have to now go through this convoluted system of proposals that can take an environment
May 28th, 2012Committee meeting
Jayson Myers
May 28th, 2012Committee meeting
Jayson Myers
Subcommittee of the Standing Committee on Finance on Bill C-38 committee No, I don't. In fact, I think what the bill does, by setting some timelines, by setting out a process that can actually be understood and that eliminates the duplication and the unnecessary uncertainty and time delays that are built into approval processes right now, is that is d
May 28th, 2012Committee meeting
Jayson Myers
Subcommittee of the Standing Committee on Finance on Bill C-38 committee Clearly, if you're building up a supply chain across the country, then you're employing Mr. Smillie's members in manufacturing, and this is exactly what we've seen. We've tended tonight to focus our comments specifically around oil sands. We've been involved for a number of years
May 28th, 2012Committee meeting
Jayson Myers
Subcommittee of the Standing Committee on Finance on Bill C-38 committee If we stopped resource development in the country, I think certainly the impact would be far beyond manufacturing. But I think for every job in the resource sector, you're probably looking at eight jobs around that in terms of manufacturing or services employment.
May 28th, 2012Committee meeting
Jayson Myers
Natural Resources committee Thank you very much, Mr. Chair. Good morning, everybody. I would like to speak specifically to an analysis that we've completed of the economic benefits, particularly for Canada's manufacturing sector, of the oil sands developments and investments in the oil sands, although I'd
April 1st, 2014Committee meeting
Dr. Jayson Myers
Natural Resources committee Can I just add a couple of things that I'm seeing? One is that because of some of the capacity constraints around where these projects are occurring, and particularly in Alberta and in Saskatchewan, companies are changing the way they're operating. We're seeing a lot of companie
April 1st, 2014Committee meeting
Dr. Jayson Myers
Natural Resources committee Exactly, especially in the future. The future of the Canadian economy is going to be based on our ability to use new technologies and on our ability to build things and to incorporate services in those as well. The oil sands, in providing energy and resource development generally
April 1st, 2014Committee meeting
Dr. Jayson Myers
Natural Resources committee Overall it's about 20%.
April 1st, 2014Committee meeting
Dr. Jayson Myers
Natural Resources committee We haven't really done an analysis looking at the refining and upgrading part, but I know that the fuel association has looked at the spinoffs of the refining. Clearly, if we were to develop more refining capacity, more upgrading capacity, there would be much more opportunity for
April 1st, 2014Committee meeting
Dr. Jayson Myers
Natural Resources committee First of all, I think the whole point of our analysis is that we shouldn't look at the extractive sectors in isolation. An awful lot of manufacturing, construction, utilities, service sector and public services are all part of that. I think I would agree with everyone who says,
April 1st, 2014Committee meeting
Dr. Jayson Myers
Natural Resources committee A great deal of the economic and job potential of the Canadian economy going forward is going to depend on our ability to bring new products, new services, and new resources to market. I think we need to look at the development and discovery of new resources and at production—how
April 1st, 2014Committee meeting
Dr. Jayson Myers
Natural Resources committee I would add that this is more, I think, than an issue of getting approvals for projects or, on a transactional basis, of companies needing workers. What I see in aboriginal communities is not only a great deal of skills development, but of communities being intent on taking that
April 1st, 2014Committee meeting
Dr. Jayson Myers