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Foreign Affairs committee Thank you for asking us to be here today.
February 27th, 2012Committee meeting
Ben Chalmers
Environment committee I think when we're talking about conservation objectives we often default to land protection and taking habitat out of use in some way, shape, or form. In some cases that's the right course of action. However, there are also instances where habitat is not necessarily the critical
May 30th, 2013Committee meeting
Ben Chalmers
Environment committee I think the best way we can answer it is to build on what Kate just said. There are only seven action plans, which is the method that SARA has mandated to implement recovery strategies. This is a very small number. You can contrast it with the number of examples that each of th
May 30th, 2013Committee meeting
Ben Chalmers
Environment committee I think how you re-form that box is that you look at, what towards sustainable mining would call, the high end of performance; that is, you work with the local communities to identify where the real values are. What are the significant aspects of the local habitat that are import
May 30th, 2013Committee meeting
Ben Chalmers
Environment committee Yes, it is. We're certainly seeing a growth in the kinds of corporate commitments around not only no net loss but net positive gain. In fact, I was just in Calgary yesterday at a workshop that was hosted by Shell. Shell is one of our members because of their oil sands operation
May 30th, 2013Committee meeting
Ben Chalmers
Natural Resources committee Thank you very much, Mr. Chair, for the opportunity to speak before you on an issue that has been very important to the Mining Association. For the last two years, we've spent an enormous amount of effort and resources in working with our partners here, Publish What You Pay, to
November 20th, 2014Committee meeting
Ben Chalmers
Natural Resources committee Absolutely. Increasingly, as we look around the world at the challenges that our sector faces in terms of getting projects built and online, a lot of it has to do with social licence. One of the elements of that is that communities don't necessarily believe the benefits that our
November 20th, 2014Committee meeting
Ben Chalmers
Natural Resources committee This legislation covers all types of payments typical to government, whether they be royalty payments, tax payments, or whatnot. We track those payments; our companies track them; we know what we pay. We often, increasingly, are very transparent on our own to communities about wh
November 20th, 2014Committee meeting
Ben Chalmers
Natural Resources committee Equivalency is absolutely critical here because essentially this data becomes most relevant, and to Claire's point, most usable when it's reported consistently. If you're dealing with multiple jurisdictions internationally or domestically that have slightly different rules you co
November 20th, 2014Committee meeting
Ben Chalmers
Natural Resources committee No. I don't think so. The equivalency provision in here speaks to other jurisdictions as long as they have mechanisms that are equivalent to this.
November 20th, 2014Committee meeting
Ben Chalmers
Natural Resources committee Yes. We believe our recommendations are needed.
November 20th, 2014Committee meeting
Ben Chalmers
Natural Resources committee It's Canadian provinces, Canadian and international jurisdictions where equivalent laws are in place.
November 20th, 2014Committee meeting
Ben Chalmers
Natural Resources committee If you are reporting to say the requirement has been established under the European directives and in the U.K., then absolutely.
November 20th, 2014Committee meeting
Ben Chalmers
Natural Resources committee The big difference, I think, is that securities regulation has a long and established track record of dealing with financial disclosures. The regimes are well understood by companies. The accuracy issues, which we spoke to as part of our recommendations, are well managed in terms
November 20th, 2014Committee meeting
Ben Chalmers
Natural Resources committee I would just add that the daily compounding is actually a disincentive to correcting errors when they're found. I mean, if a company detects an error, let's say several months after issuing the report, if they go and correct it then they've given evidence to support that they're
November 20th, 2014Committee meeting
Ben Chalmers