Natural Resources committee  Thank you very much, Lisa. Thank you for that question, Mr. Chair and Mr. Cannings. I think it's a very valid one. To put a point on it, you're right, in that many of these types of deposits we're talking about, when we get into critical minerals, can be more challenging to dis

Industry committee  I will actually be addressing the committee today.

Industry committee  Thank you very much. Good afternoon, Chair and committee members. I want to first acknowledge that I come to you from the traditional lands of the Huron, the Chippewa, the Haudenosaunee, Wendat and Oneida peoples, the Anishinabe and the Mississaugas of the Credit, and all the i

Industry committee  I would start by suggesting that the Canadian mining and mineral exploration industry is almost unparalleled in terms of its quality, its capabilities and the best practices that this industry brings to its operations, both in Canada and abroad. When we think about Canada's capab

Industry committee  It's a great question. I'll come back to our recommendations, and for good reason. Knowledge is key, and what we've seen in recent mandate letters around reliance on science and evidence-based decision-making is the right way to go. With that in mind, there is information we sti

Industry committee  In thinking about who our membership predominantly represents, we typically have junior mineral exploration somewhat up to development companies as the primary cohort at PDAC. The impacts of what has happened over the last number of years, from the development and implementation

Industry committee  We understand quite clearly that resources are predominantly within the purview of the provincial governments. It's really up to the provinces to find what they think is appropriate within those regions, whether it's an economic development related to mineral exploration or other

Industry committee  I would say, definitively, that we were focused on a social licence to operate as an industry and as an association, as well as on how we could assist our members in being able to get to that point with their projects in asset development. When we consider where we are today, in

Industry committee  I wouldn't speak to any one single deposit in terms of what its capacity and capability is, but there is most certainly hard rock potential across virtually every province and territory in Canada. I think there are known showings or prospects for lithium of various species all ac

Industry committee  I wouldn't want to speak to the very specifics of a cost comparison, but I would say there is a huge amount of hard rock potential in Canada. We have a huge amount of experience with respect to hard rock mining. The majority of mining that's conducted in Canada is hard rock, whet

Industry committee  I'll step back and just talk about the timelines for a moment as well. In bringing something from exploration to an extracted mine, exploration is certainly onerous. As I talked about earlier, the odds of success are pretty low. It's very capital intensive. Most of the explorati

Industry committee  I appreciate that sentiment. Let me give you a sense of the return on investment for somebody who's looking at this sector, because it's very relevant. We think about the concept of critical minerals and the industries they're going to feed into. A gold deposit could exist, theo

Industry committee  I would suggest that the government does a pretty good job of tracking some of this information. We use Natural Resources Canada as a good resource ourselves to understand where opportunities may lie. If we look to the current list that NRCan has in terms of the top 100 explora

Industry committee  Yes, I'd certainly like to pick up on that to take it further. Social awareness, the underlying evidence we've been talking about, trying to generate that so we understand where these steps need to be taken.... We talk about timelines for development, and that's regulatory and t

Natural Resources committee  Yes. I'll handle the answer if that's okay, Lisa. When we think about what we need to do in Canada.... As Lisa mentioned in her opening remarks, I think budget 2022 was a good first step. We saw new incentives being committed to. We saw new funding being directed, or notionally