Natural Resources committee  I agree. You know, we all need to be stewards of the environment. We all need to do environmentally sustainable development. When you talk about the Giant gold mine, you're talking about a mine that was developed in the thirties, when there was no regulatory body in place to make

Natural Resources committee  Absolutely, and it should continue.

Natural Resources committee  I don't think I have witnessed that in the Northwest Territories, so I don't know if I'm able to comment on it. On an individual level, I would say that I would be against foreign activists telling Canada how to manage its lands and resources.

Natural Resources committee  Certainly, again, the NWT being so resource-rich.... With our NWT and mining, we have a gold project called Tyhee, which is just outside Yellowknife. We have Fortune mining's NICO, a gold, copper, cobalt, and bismuth mine. We have Thor Lake, which is rare metals. That's Avalon, j

Natural Resources committee  I had the pleasure of taking part in the Canadian Chamber's skills development round table just earlier this week in Yellowknife. I was happy to note that there are internship programs in the north, as well as a northern leadership development program, which could certainly use m

Natural Resources committee  In the Northwest Territories, because we do have a lot of mining, the Mine Training Society has been beneficial to the north, as have been the apprenticeship programs. I'm not familiar with other apprenticeship programs and funding throughout Canada. I do know that the apprentice

Natural Resources committee  I'm sorry, I don't.

Natural Resources committee  I believe with the completion of an economic development strategy, which the NWT is currently without, we'll have a better ability to be in the same situation the Yukon is in and will be able to look five, 10, or 50 years out to make sure that we have the ability to man projects.

Natural Resources committee  Let's talk about mining, for example. Mining has been a big innovator in the north, and it has created large infrastructure itself, but it's also because of the two gold mines that are here in town that hydroelectricity was brought into Yellowknife. Asking industry to create that

Natural Resources committee  I'm not very familiar with the spill that's just occurred. There was a spill that occurred in the Northwest Territories—

Natural Resources committee  Is it bad to say I see job creation from that?

Natural Resources committee  I'm sorry. I don't have the exact numbers.

Natural Resources committee  In the Northwest Territories, I'll go back to the diamond mines. With their impact and benefit agreements, there's been lots of opportunity for aboriginal businesses. Like I said, there's been 75 to 100 aboriginal businesses created due to that. Something I haven't mentioned is

Natural Resources committee  It's up to industry to create jobs. If you increase corporate taxes you then give industry a reason not to exist. By allowing industry to create more jobs to increase the tax base, I think you would recapture many more dollars than you would by a corporate tax increase.

Natural Resources committee  The small business tax credit has certainly helped industry to be able to provide more jobs, to hire, to train, to improve its workforce. Certainly any kind of tax credit to small business, when you're talking about dollars and cents and pennies and nickels, is a big deal.