Thank you. It's a great pleasure to be here today.
I have a small presentation in powerpoint that I would like to distribute.
My name is David Boerner. I'm a director general in the Geological Survey of Canada, which runs a number of programs related principally to the geology of Canada. These are related to natural hazards, the offshore marine areas, such things as permafrost, climate change, environmental responsibility, and also, of course, minerals and energy.
Today for the most part I'll speak about the energy and minerals program, which is part of the geo-mapping activity that is an element of the northern strategy. I'd be happy to take questions on elements of this. There may be some questions from outside my particular area, but the focus I'll try to cover today is geo-mapping for energy and minerals.
In front of you is a short deck that describes something about this program. I'm not going to speak to every slide, but I'll try to hit the highlights of what the slides mean.
The first one I'll talk about is slide 3, which indicates that Canada has quite limited mineral and energy production from the north. It shows a graph of the mineral production for 2008.