Environment committee  We'd definitely be very encouraged to have better data search tools incorporated. Probably the secretariat would be in a position to answer where they are now and what they would need to go further. We're more concerned that at the reporting stage we're repeatedly seeing order of magnitude errors because someone put in tonnes instead of kilograms, for example.

Environment committee  I would like the government not to have clunky old systems, and there's an aspect of public registries that is very valuable to researchers and the country as a whole, so I don't want to argue for “let's just privatize it”. It's very important that it be in government. I believe the secretariat makes the data available to researchers.

Environment committee  Yes.

Environment committee  Yes, and that is captured under the NPRI.

Environment committee  Yes.

Environment committee  That is in the NPRI. Where the NPRI falls short—and we had a certain disagreement way back before it was brought in—is that other aspects that are significant in terms of the environmental and safety aspect of the tailings pond are not captured in the NPRI.

Environment committee  We do not represent and have never represented asbestos producers.

Environment committee  Yes.

Environment committee  No. In some of the government publications, they mention that they are monitoring this or this is based on monitoring data. However, when we ask where that data is, it's, “Well, we're not publishing it.”

Environment committee  I don't know. I don't know why, but there isn't a cultural practice or policy to get the data out there, possibly because of costs.

Environment committee  We're not going to run out of it.

Environment committee  It's 30%.

Environment committee  Yes, and that reflects that most uses of copper have a long lifespan. For example, the wiring in this building will not be available for recycling for perhaps 50 years, plus there's growth in electrification around the world.

Environment committee  That question I could not answer off the top of my head. We would have to get some numbers.

Environment committee  Probably not, but the market responds to prices. As prices go up, more mines come to market. If there's an oversupply, then mines shut down, because there's too much and prices drop. It is difficult to align or assign the correlation. All we know is that when prices go too high, people start stealing brass plaques from churches.