Natural Resources committee  No, you can access the documents. Again, I can only speak to my experience, but certainly in the process in the Northwest Territories and Nunavut, all of the documents associated with those environmental assessments are posted on their web pages, and you would be able to find est

Natural Resources committee  I'll quickly deal with geoscience and royalties. One dollar in public geoscience usually generates four or five dollars in private sector spending, because you're usually going from regional scale mapping to project specific mapping, which is like a 1:50,000 ratio as opposed to

Natural Resources committee  My understanding is that the Ekati diamond mine in the Northwest Territories has somewhere between $240 million and $280 million in posted security. That could be in a bond, a promissory note, or that kind of thing—but essentially it's a claim against the company. It's still unde

Natural Resources committee  We can certainly get the one for Nunavut. The Nunavut Planning Commission is undergoing a large regional planning process to come up with the colours that you see here, the areas that would be open for development and those that would be closed. It would be a bit of a treasure hu

Natural Resources committee  Certainly north of 60 in Nunavut, as part of the Nunavut Land Claims Agreement, there's a requirement for IIBAs. These are Inuit impact and benefits agreements that cover things such as job opportunities within the mine operations, and also touch on training and development. It's

Natural Resources committee  I'm familiar with the regime north of 60. Before a mine gets permitted at the front end, the mining proponent has to prepare and submit a mine remediation and closure plan to the environmental review board. That is done by the proponents, and usually involves third-party engineer

Natural Resources committee  In the Inuvialuit settlement region, the ISR, they have their own environmental assessment regime. Most people in industry, particularly the oil and gas industry, would comment that it's a much easier system to navigate. It has its own reasons for that, whether it's the first nat

Natural Resources committee  The board's structure north of 60 is a function of the comprehensive land claims. To the best of my understanding, the chief federal negotiator who was appointed had to initiate a round of consultations with first nation groups. It's something they negotiated with the federal gov

Natural Resources committee  Yes, I just wanted to enunciate the areas we do comment on. As Ginny said, there is the actual mine engineering, and there is geology; explosives; mine effluents; minerals and metals science; permafrost, which is primarily a north-of-60 issue; hydrology; seismology; and glaciolog

Natural Resources committee  I believe there was an agreement in principle signed between the federal government and the Government of the Northwest Territories. I believe the territories' intention is to conclude devolution negotiations within a 24-month time period. With respect to the 13 boards in the N