Mr. Scott Vaughan at the Natural Resources Committee

On February 5th, 2013. See this statement in context.

February 5th, 2013 / 3:45 p.m.

Commissioner of the Environment and Sustainable Development, Office of the Auditor General of Canada

Right.

For mining, it is $500 million, and that's for mines north of 60. We've said there are some problems with whether or not the government knows that's sufficient. We found three mines where it was clearly not sufficient, and we also said that 70% of the mining inspections required by regulation haven't taken place for mines north of 60. There was a fairly big deficiency.

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