Natural Resources committee  Yes, exactly, though I could canoe here.

Natural Resources committee  Thank you very kindly for having us in on this obviously very important topic to our country, but also to our neighbouring countries in the circumpolar north. And a hello to my colleague from Alaska, where I did my Fulbright. Folks in Alaska really treated me well, so I have a v

Natural Resources committee  Okay. Last point. What can we do? There are about two billion people on this planet who....around 1.3 billion who don't have electricity, and another billion or so we've tied to grids or are islanded. Imagine economies of scope: Alaska, Canada, Norway, Sweden and Greenland work

Natural Resources committee  That's a very good question. I'll defer to Alaska first.

Natural Resources committee  Sure. Sometimes we are first to look at what we don't do well, but I think we do a number of things well. In terms of land rights, it's hard to find another country in which you have stronger land rights than you do in Canada. To go back to your earlier question on the evolutio

Natural Resources committee  Okay.

Natural Resources committee  To take the electricity one, here's a slam dunk that we should be looking at as a country. Look at the Northwest Territories and the intertie to Saskatchewan into northern Manitoba. In terms of a nation-building project to move electrons around, that's something we ought to do th

Natural Resources committee  A hundred per cent.

Natural Resources committee  No, I know. Again, with the duty to consult, there's a misconception that it gives an automatic veto. It doesn't. Of course, there are thresholds in proximity communities. Impacts and all those things get taken into account. But I will tell you this: If we're going to do this suc

Natural Resources committee  A hundred per cent.

Natural Resources committee  A hundred per cent, and I'll give you an anecdote. When I started negotiating with SaskPower with my negotiation hat on, I and my colleague at the time—Tom Molloy, who abandoned me when he picked up another day job, as Lieutenant Governor of Saskatchewan—sat down with them, and w

Natural Resources committee  Sure.

Natural Resources committee  Here's one of the things historically around EIA processes. Often when there is any opportunity at consultation, even though traditionally EIA tends to focus on the physical/environmental perspective, on the community perspective they typically see this broadly. This is one of th

Natural Resources committee  Well, I'm sure the committee is aware.... I don't know if you guys have ever heard of Bill C-69?

Natural Resources committee  You know what—