Environment committee  I'll start the answer for this. I think an overall construct that we're looking for is to enable and provide a platform or an incentive for more voluntary industrial and non-industrial habitat conservation measures on the land base. We found, certainly, in a lot of the jurisdict

Finance committee  Good morning, Mr. Chairman, and members of the committee. As mentioned, my name is Alex Ferguson. I work with the Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers. As you probably know, our members collectively find and develop over 90% of Canada's petroleum resources. Thank you for

Finance committee  The reality is it's a mix of both. We're looking at and rely on, as do our allied friends in the construction and manufacturing sector, the temporary foreign workers to fill those short-term gaps and bumps, but really, the pathway forward when you look at the kind of investment

Finance committee  Absolutely.

Finance committee  The workforce challenge to me is about growing Canada, not just looking at a few more skilled trades. We need the folks who support our business, the service sector, and the allied sectors like the restaurants and those kinds of things. We need to grow Canada.

Finance committee  No, I can't, sorry.

Finance committee  We've outlined a few broad ideas in the brief that I provided, but a lot of it is continuing the work the federal government has been doing, getting out there, being visible, telling the international communities, the U.S. in particular, how important this is for us. We are also

Finance committee  To start with, at a very high level, one of the things we were encouraged to see is the growing cohesiveness, at least in the western provinces, but all the provinces with the federal government, on key elements. We would hope that some of that growing cohesiveness would expand i

Finance committee  Yes.

Finance committee  Certainly. We've been spending a lot of time on the Species at Risk Act, trying to get it more functional. Our view is that it is a pretty significant constraint not only on the land base but also on Canada's reputation. Concerning the performance on SARA, with over 500 specie

Finance committee  I wouldn't restrict it to being unique around the Fort McMurray area. Certainly, other parts of the country have the same ethic and desire concerning those species.

Finance committee  Very much, very much; so we believe it's a good opportunity to increase performance on SARA.

Finance committee  Certainly. First of all, we look at the changes to some of that legislation and we see continued good environmental performance. There are some process changes that we believe took place in those two acts. We're very supportive of the new Fisheries Act, for example, because we

Finance committee  That's certainly not our view. One issue that we see in the Fisheries Act, though, and I'm alluding to the second part of your question, is that it's a piece of legislation that doesn't have a lot of regulation written yet. For it to be an effective piece of work, we would like

Finance committee  Certainly we've advocated and structured our position on greenhouse gas emissions policy for Canada around three key areas. The first is to keep an eye on the competitiveness piece for the sector. The second is accepting and being responsive to the social licence issues related