Industry committee  I want to thank you for giving me the opportunity to speak to this important standing committee. Industry and technology folks would know that Canada is well-positioned—and for the purposes of today's discussion the province of Ontario as well—to seize, especially in the context

Industry committee  Don't worry, I get called Rick, but with a consonant in front of that sometimes, but we're politicians and we go by a lot of names.

Industry committee  That's a great question, Bernie, and it's great to see you. I think two things come to mind. The first one is political and perhaps government-related. The other one is strategic business concepts. In the first instance, I think that the federal government has to ensure that i

Industry committee  I know you do, Bernie, but I've just got to get this out. On the business concept side, it's simply to make sure that we complement each other as provinces in what we can and can't do.

Industry committee  I think we have an obligation to do it, quite frankly, Bernie, as collective jurisdictions that comprise a confederation called Canada. The world has come to our doorstep. They've asked us to do more than just mine. They want us to process. They want us to present the opportuni

Industry committee  We do forums through FPTs. Through PDAC, later this spring, we are looking at crystallizing some good discussion points to formalize a venue where we could do complementary work as governments and as businesses. Obviously, the excitement around lithium in Quebec is justified. I

Industry committee  We could catch a lot of those projects up right now, Andy, if we could have regulatory certainty from the federal government on some of our major projects, including the Ring of Fire. This is a positive non-partisan conversation that we need to have and it's happening right now h

Industry committee  For the first answer, I go back to my opening comment. Who doesn't want to be part of the single biggest environmental policy that any jurisdiction could advance the world over? That's a new and refreshing way to think about this. There is no green economy without mining. That's

Industry committee  My bad.

Industry committee  A lot of this has to be driven by the private sector. My own approach here, as I mentioned in my prepared remarks—or my unprepared remarks, because I didn't really read from the speech—is to have a regulatory environment that supports and facilitates that. We want to be careful

Industry committee  You too, Andy. Thanks.

Industry committee  Thank you for the question. We learned from the Plan Nord in Quebec. There's also the Centre d'excellence sur les métaux critiques et stratégiques Éléments08. I believe it's a project of the CEGEP in your region, Abitibi‑Témiscamingue. These are things that we think have to b

Industry committee  You know, I just finished a conversation with the folks at Wyloo, who obviously successfully...or as it will be announced—it's a matter of public information—a considerable stake in the Ring of Fire. It's the billion-dollar question, not the million-dollar question. I spent most

Industry committee  Daniel, this is a really important question that you ask, and a friendly “hello” as a fellow Mantarian. You could appreciate, as my neighbour out there in Kenora, it's great to have a question from you. Manitoba supplies 100% of Canada's cesium, lithium and tantalum. They're ho

Industry committee  Maybe somebody from the Conservative Party could give Daniel a couple of extra minutes. That was a great question and it's pertinent—