Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Thank you to our witnesses for their presentations.
Mr. Dirom, I understand you are actually Gavin Dirom the Third, and both your grandfather and your father also served to promote the mineral industry in British Columbia. I've met your father at previous AME BC events, and I want to thank you for your multi-generational service to our province and our country.
We had Pierre Gratton in, the president and CEO of the Mining Association of Canada. The Mining Association has indicated that it supports a carbon tax—or a price on carbon, however you want to message that—but it also says that it wants “a level playing field for emissions-intensive trade-exposed industries.”
Do you share that perspective? Do you think mining counts as an emissions-intensive trade-exposed industry that should perhaps be considered differently as we have this national conversation?