Natural Resources committee  When we're on the land, we often go to places that the local folks would not go to, because they're not necessarily where they traditionally go to hunt, for example, or to gather berries at a specific time of the year. We go to places that make them think we're sometimes kind of

Natural Resources committee  Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I'll answer the most straightforward question first. All jurisdictions in Canada, with the exception of Prince Edward Island, have geological survey organizations of one form or another. As we introduced previously, it's the intergovernmental geoscienc

Natural Resources committee  Thank you. It's my pleasure. I think we're on the same page with respect to working as locally as possible with the local stakeholders, individual communities, and jurisdictional governments. Those more local are always more informed on what the issues are, what the desires are

Natural Resources committee  In the case of Mexico, as an example, it's physically a much smaller country and it's much more logistically accessible. The Mexican government has recently—I do not have exact dates off the top of my head, but they have completed a major regional mapping program of their entire

Natural Resources committee  Thank you. Geological knowledge and its public availability is one of the factors. Others include political stability and certainty of economic rights, mineral rights that won't disappear with the government.

Natural Resources committee  I would suggest that we're somewhere in the middle. Our main competitive countries are places like Australia and Mexico, where the state of adequate geoscience knowledge is advanced relative to Canada's. We're further ahead than many other countries. But owing to the sheer size o

Natural Resources committee  Thank you. The degree to which the resolution is sufficient is really one that comes from our experience in providing regional or framework scale maps, as we call them, across the north and in the southern parts of the country. Our experience has shown that preliminary maps, w