Natural Resources committee  A lot of the work that the Geological Survey of Canada would do would be physical mapping and using this kind of technology as well as other forms of geophysics to identify units and then essentially ground-truth them to understand what the lithology is. A lot of geochemical su

Natural Resources committee  If you can meet these certain criteria, then it's a very easy decision for somebody to make at the end, whereas what we have in the territories is that every project is looked at in its own light. A lot of the information is quite repetitive; that can be the streamlined part of i

Natural Resources committee  When you say P3, you're talking—

Natural Resources committee  Yes. I'll put it this way. There are a number of deposits across the north that are not economical based on one company building a single road. But if you have enough of these deposits along a path, then it starts to become economical if the companies kick in a portion of that ro

Natural Resources committee  Yes, for sure.

Natural Resources committee  I can answer part of that. In places like Newfoundland, it might be one person, but there is a series of criteria that have to be met.

Natural Resources committee  The other benefit is to the community itself. There are communities up there that are fly-in, fly-out. If there was additional infrastructure, that would lower their burden. They would be a lot more self-sufficient. The government funds a lot of that transport.

Natural Resources committee  That's a good question. I'll start with Nunavut, where the land issue is settled. What happened there is that the different communities took ownership of certain parcels of land. The parcels of land have then been surveyed, and now we look at a map and know who owns what land. Wh

Natural Resources committee  Yes, I'll give you a really good example. We used to do a lot of work on Victoria Island, where there is a boundary that came right through the middle of a project. On one side it was Nunavut, and on the other side was NWT. For the same permit, just to do some drilling of several

Natural Resources committee  Thank you for the opportunity to speak. I'll drop right into it. Diamonds North has been operating in the north for about 10 years, most of them involved with another company called Uranium North. These two companies have spent probably in the order of $100 million in the last d