Natural Resources committee  These publication presentations are largely technical, aimed at the geoscientist or explorationist community members who are very savvy about that sort of documentation, looking for breakthroughs in knowledge and science and new models, so that they can look out for the haystacks

Natural Resources committee  Good afternoon. I'm Daniel Lebel. I'm director general for the Geological Survey of Canada and one of the leads for the geoscience programs we have. The principles behind the targeted geoscience initiatives are that these are time-limited and cyclical. We have programs that, for

Natural Resources committee  Exactly, yes. We have two types of geoscience programming. We talked earlier, in the main estimates, about the geomapping program. This one is really geared towards research and innovation rather than doing surveys to do inventory-like—

Natural Resources committee  Yes, exactly. For example, borehole geophysics have been used to help develop ways to find new reserves of base metals through technology such as seismic technology and boreholes that had not been tested in the past.

Natural Resources committee  These things are being adopted. We had a study done over the course of the last phase of the program. We had somebody who's an expert in the field of geoscience interview companies from across Canada about all the uptake, the results of this program, and we have testimony from a

Natural Resources committee  Yes, exactly. It varies. One of the most difficult questions in geoscience—we've been struggling with this for many years, and earlier there were some questions about performance of the program—is to attribute exactly the benefits from the program. Where we build a program stru