Thank you, Mr. Chair and members of the committee, for the opportunity to be here in person today.
My name is Amber Johnston-Billings. I'm a vice-president at Teck Resources covering the communities area and the government and regulatory affairs area.
Teck is a proudly Canadian company. We employ 8,000 people directly in Canada and another 65,000 people indirectly across this nation. There are four head offices—three based in Vancouver, Calgary and Toronto, as well as a satellite office in Santiago, Chile—and last year we contributed $11 billion to Canada's GDP.
Today, for the purposes of the committee, we intend to focus on the Trail smelting and refining complex in southern B.C. Joining me is Thompson Hickey, who is the general manager for that smelting complex. I'll pass this to him now to describe the metals recycling program at Trail.