International Trade committee  Yes.

International Trade committee  I have not been to the site; I've been to the community.

International Trade committee  We visited the community before the mine opened, and I have never been back since then.

International Trade committee  I've asked that question a number of times in other fora, whether people can provide examples of positive projects and—

International Trade committee  No.

International Trade committee  I am, yes.

International Trade committee  I have no idea why the environmental assessment isn't available. Looking at the environmental assessment of other trade agreements, I have to say they're not terribly educational. They don't provide very much material at the best of times. So even if it were there, I don't know i

International Trade committee  Okay.

International Trade committee  I have to say this is not a new problem, but it is significant, and apparently it's not a problem that's going away any time soon. My trade lawyer friends call it “jurisdiction shopping”, and most large corporations have a sufficiently complex corporate structure to allow them to

International Trade committee  Pacific Rim is a Canadian company that is using its U.S. subsidiary to sue the Government of El Salvador for failing to provide it with the mining permits that it was seeking.

International Trade committee  Yes, much as Glamis Gold previously used the NAFTA provisions to sue the U.S. government. Even though the company itself was based in Nevada, it had a Canadian affiliate and used that route to go after the U.S. So as I say, this has been going on for some time, and I don't see th

International Trade committee  I'm going to use the example of the Molejón mine, because most of the mining projects currently identified in Panama are in the exploration stage. Some of them are doing drilling; some of them are just doing reconnaissance. The Molejón mine is the only one that's actually produci

International Trade committee  I understand that the Panamanian government has been revisiting Bill C-30. At the same time we've lost Bill C-300. The opportunity is there. As I say, the question is, what kind of investment would be made by Canadian companies in the absence of any particular requirements? In C

International Trade committee  The opportunities are considerable. As I pointed out, Inmet has a commitment of over $4 billion to the Petaquilla project. There are eight to 12 other significant project areas. As Mr. Clarke pointed out, some of them have been very badly managed in the past and have created cons

International Trade committee  I'm trying to parse a double negative. Will...?