Natural Resources committee  Thank you very much, Mr. Chair. Good afternoon. It's my pleasure to appear at committee today on behalf of Cameco Corporation to discuss critical minerals and Canada's role as a responsible source of these valuable commodities as we move to a low-carbon, post-COVID economy. Hea

Natural Resources committee  The first instance, our Cigar Lake Mine, will come back on as soon as the pandemic conditions allow it. It was taken down last year and also this year in response to trying to keep the pandemic out of northern Saskatchewan. We didn't want to inadvertently become a site for commun

Natural Resources committee  First, thank you for your kind words about Cameco. I admit that question is not in my field of expertise. I would not want to mislead the committee. I'm certainly happy to get back to the committee with Cameco's experiences in terms of women miners and women employees in our co

Natural Resources committee  Not recently. Cigar Lake was the latest mine that we brought online. That was a number of years ago. We have not had the opportunity yet to put a new project forward under the new regulatory process. Until we have experience there, I can't really answer the question. We're a hea

Natural Resources committee  Market conditions are a large factor there. The ongoing low price of uranium certainly has a bearing on when we would consider making applications and looking at new projects.

Natural Resources committee  Certainly. Our major Asian markets would be South Korea, Japan and China, and I would say probably in the neighbourhood of 25% of our sales go into those markets.

Natural Resources committee  For South Korea, Japan and China, Japan is about 14%; China is 10% and South Korea, depending, is somewhere in the neighbourhood of 5% to 10%.

Natural Resources committee  Our largest customer continues to be the United States at about 30%. They have the highest number of reactors operating in the world right now. The largest growth opportunities, frankly, are in China and India. Both have announced significant nuclear power growth programs, and th

Natural Resources committee  That's a very good question. I know they're actively pursuing opportunities there. The foreign investment considerations come into play, so it's hard to say at this point

Natural Resources committee  It would depend on the offtake arrangements that were in place between the entities, so it's hard to say. We wouldn't have a look-in on that.

Industry committee  Thank you very much. Good afternoon. It's my pleasure to appear at committee today on behalf of Cameco Corporation to provide input to your study on Bill C-235. The bill and the committee's study of it are of particular interest to Cameco. Headquartered in Saskatoon, Saskatchew

Industry committee  In the context of this bill, it was mentioned as a new source simply because nuclear power doesn't exist in the Prairies as yet, but Canada has a long history of producing nuclear energy. It has close to seven decades of being in the nuclear energy business. I believe we were the

Industry committee  In my view, and I'll confine my comments to the energy sector, one of the main challenges on the prairies is looking for ways to make use of all forms of energy. This is not a situation where we are picking either-or. We are going to need all forms of energy into the future. I

Industry committee  That's a difficult question, because, as I read the bill, there is a significant amount of consultation and discussion that is part of that in order to come to what would be a final conclusion. I think there are ways to manage the bureaucratic burden, if I can put it that way, pr

Industry committee  I don't believe that's the intention of the bill at all. I believe the intention of the bill is to work together to come up with a plan to have a green economy in the Prairies that is successful, that minimizes the economic impacts of, in our case, energy and resource development