Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Thank you to the witnesses for coming today.
My first question is for Professor Coates. You raised a number of really important points. This isn't a critical mineral mine, but there's a mine fairly close to my community and they come under provincial and federal jurisdiction. Recently, the federal jurisdiction has said that if you want to increase by more than 50%, you'll be subject to the federal impact assessment, whereas if it is under 50%, you'll be subject to the Alberta Energy Regulator review. In their case, they sought to expand by about 49%—playing pretty close to the line—and they were subject to a federal review. Lately, this has been compounding and causing temporary job losses and delays.
I wonder if you could talk about the impact you've seen of the new Impact Assessment Agency on getting mining projects going in Canada.