Natural Resources committee  I believe the outstanding question was on the regulatory side. South of 60, the Major Projects Management Office has timeframes within which it works. Once a proponent brings in a project description, and it's fully acceptable and departments have acknowledged they have to make

Natural Resources committee  There are various maps around and we'll check for them. Environment Canada is doing a lot of land use planning with a number of provinces that are interested in that, so they probably have some. We'll check and verify that those maps are available.

Natural Resources committee  I'm not sure they overlay the resource potential, though, but would very much be for protected areas.

Natural Resources committee  I won't go into much detail, but for the most part-- forgive me, I have to speak in French.

Natural Resources committee  No problem. As for closing a mine, we really follow the advice from industry, from the sector, and the proponent. However, there are often consequences on fisheries, navigation or other areas. In those specific cases, we try to come up with a plan to compensate the fishing or s

Natural Resources committee  I am going to pass the question on to Patrick.

Natural Resources committee  I can add to that. I'll just give you the example of the Meadowbank project. It's about 340 jobs, a 10-year project that's worth about $457 million. A number of other projects are coming in the longer term. Mining projects range in size, but that's a fairly average project.

Natural Resources committee  You're absolutely right. It doesn't really differentiate what province we're in. We provide two different aspects. In one case, we could actually be a regulator, and so we would be providing advice based on our regulatory responsibility related to the Explosives Act. Within that,

Natural Resources committee  I'll just talk a little bit about the aboriginal front. We are doing some work in the Ring of Fire on the aboriginal front just to make sure that the aboriginal communities do benefit. As Anil said, the environmental assessment process, obviously, will look at the environmental

Natural Resources committee  Okay, I won't go into too much detail, because it really is an area that Aboriginal Affairs and Northern Development is responsible for, but, obviously, at NRCan we have a real interest in that and have actively participated in it. With respect to the streamlining, much of the a