Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Good morning, Mr. Chair and committee members. Thank you for the opportunity to speak to you today. It's a pleasure to follow on the remarks of my colleague Dr. Nicol. I want to focus my opening remarks on how I believe the Russian invasion of Ukraine has impacted Arctic secur

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Thank you. I have three main recommendations to prepare for this new Arctic security paradigm. The first is one the government has already undertaken and that is to adequately fund NORAD modernization. I want to express my support for this position and I hope, as I know all of

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Good morning, everyone. I will go through it again so the French speakers can benefit. I will start with the three recommendations to prepare for the new Arctic security paradigm. The first is one that the government has undertaken, and that is to adequately fund NORAD modern

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  That's a great question. I was at a workshop in Boston when there were members from Gwich’in and also from the Sami, and they had some opinions on this that I'm happy to share. That is obviously to the benefit of the Arctic Council, so there is concern from the indigenous side

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Yes. My sincere apologies. Now I'm on a laptop and the Wi-Fi is poor, which is why I tried the other computer and set-up before.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  The Arctic Council is not a treaty organization; it's a forum. Notionally it works on environmental protection and sustainable development, but its main benefits have been co-operation with Russia, frankly, and including the indigenous voice. The question is how can it go forward

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Thank you. I appreciate the question. From my perspective, it's not necessarily true that if the Russian state is not represented, Russians in the Saami Council, the Aleut or the ICC are not represented. I would think it would be up to those organizations—the ICC, the Aleut and

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  It is my observation that it's rare. The people who attend Arctic Council meetings are generally not the Russian members of those organizations. It will be up to the Russian state whether they allow Russian indigenous members to travel internationally or whether there are any san

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  That's a very good question. It depends on how you define sovereignty. On the question of the Northwest Passage, it's more of a maritime issue. On the question that is most pertinent, the extended continental shelf, that is the seabed. It's not an area that has been occupied or

Natural Resources committee  Good morning, Mr. Chair and committee members. My expertise is resource geopolitics and indigenous engagement in Canadian resource development, and I'll focus my brief remarks on those issues. To briefly set the context, the COVID pandemic and the Russian invasion of Ukraine hav

Natural Resources committee  The correct lesson, in my view, is that a pipeline that could have been built for $7 billion 10 years ago now takes well over $20 billion due to our political, legal and regulatory systems. This is a huge problem that needs to be addressed. We seem to be discussing only TMX becau

Natural Resources committee  Thank you so much for the question. I could talk about nuclear all day. As you guys probably know, the Athabasca basin in northern Saskatchewan—I'm from Saskatchewan—has probably the richest reserves of uranium in the world, and we have done quite a good job of involving indigen

Natural Resources committee  That's a great question. There's so much more that we could be doing. We are the second-largest country in the world and we probably have the most.... We're only number eight in terms of mining value. Number one is China and number two is Russia, so it is incredibly important—for

Natural Resources committee  I would note and acknowledge that they invested just under $1 billion in the SMR demonstration project, the biggest ever in the Canada Infrastructure Bank. But what the U.S. Department of Energy is doing is looking at nuclear fuel and enriched nuclear fuel. Most of the small modu

Natural Resources committee  Thank you very much for the question. Again, here is another natural resource that is getting a bit politicized in Canada. There are tremendous opportunities, including in the oil and gas industry, to do blue hydrogen. There are huge markets for blue hydrogen. There have been mu