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Industry committee Sure. Thank you for the question. It's nice to see you, Viviane. I've touched on the METC and public geoscience already, so maybe I'll leave those two issues aside. I've also touched on the need to focus on accelerating the regulatory process. Let me, then, skip further downstre
February 4th, 2022Committee meeting
Pierre Gratton
Industry committee I appreciate that question. It was a platform commitment of your party. For the reasons that the committee has discussed today, this is a race. Doubling the mineral exploration tax credit for critical minerals would put Canada way out in front of every other country in the world
February 4th, 2022Committee meeting
Pierre Gratton
Industry committee Yes, but where would it go—
February 4th, 2022Committee meeting
Pierre Gratton
Industry committee It would make us more attractive than other places. You're right. The commodity prices are going to stimulate more exploration into these materials worldwide, but where they go worldwide is an open question. The METC would make sure that Canada—which is always near the top—would
February 4th, 2022Committee meeting
Pierre Gratton
Industry committee Well, building a new mine takes time. What our brief focuses on is that we really need to look at every stage of the value chain. We need to have more discoveries. There's been a dearth of base metal exploration in Canada for the last 15 to 20 years. There's been a dearth worldw
February 4th, 2022Committee meeting
Pierre Gratton
Industry committee Yes, it definitely does. From discovery to construction, it can take as long as 10 years. It depends on where. It depends on what. It depends on the level of indigenous support for the project. There is a range of factors. Some can be permitted faster than that. It really depends
February 4th, 2022Committee meeting
Pierre Gratton
Industry committee That's right.
February 4th, 2022Committee meeting
Pierre Gratton
Industry committee I wouldn't say that were lagging behind, but it's important to realize that it is a race. We have advantages that many countries do not in terms of battery production because we have all the minerals required and strong businesses, refineries and foundries. Other countries do not
February 4th, 2022Committee meeting
Pierre Gratton
Industry committee We have one lithium mine in Canada, so we have a long way to go. There are a lot of lithium deposits across the country. We need to attract the capital and start developing them. Lithium is just one of the many materials that go into a battery. We're much stronger on some of th
February 4th, 2022Committee meeting
Pierre Gratton
Industry committee Thank you very much, Mr. Chair. My name is Pierre Gratton, and I am president of the Mining Association of Canada, as you said. I'm here with my colleague, Brendan Marshall, who is vice-president for economic affairs. To help frame the issue, it's important to differentiate bet
February 4th, 2022Committee meeting
Pierre Gratton
Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee OceanaGold is not. Placer doesn't exist anymore, nor does, I think, TVI. Barrick is. They have a mine in Canada. B2Gold is. The others are not.
April 20th, 2021Committee meeting
Pierre Gratton
Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee Of course, we all want to raise the bar. That's what we're trying to do through TSM, to raise the bar for everyone, but we can only do what we can do.
April 20th, 2021Committee meeting
Pierre Gratton
Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee As other jurisdictions adopt it, it starts to get taken up by more and more, and it starts to apply to more and more. We do what we can.
April 20th, 2021Committee meeting
Pierre Gratton
Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee I am not suggesting in any way that TSM is a replacement for government oversight. I'm not suggesting that at all. We were describing what we have done as Canadians, which I think is laudable because even though there are more powerful mining jurisdictions in the world, no other
April 20th, 2021Committee meeting
Pierre Gratton
Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee I can't say that every mining company behaves well. Some are better than others. That's true of every company in society. Some are better behaved than others.
April 20th, 2021Committee meeting
Pierre Gratton