Environment committee  I have just one quick additional point. This is a good place to link to regional and strategic assessments, to say that this is where you take into consideration the results or the output of those kinds of assessments and where they become part of the decision.

Environment committee  No, of course not. Full employment is a great thing. The obstacle we're wrestling with is the lack of consistency in decision-making and the inability, without criteria in front of us, to understand the implications of those decisions. The point of trying to put economic developm

Environment committee  I think the drafters have tried to cover too much ground with one concept. They have tried to accommodate substitution of provincial processes and recognition of indigenous processes in the same basket. It's not working because there's a set of requirements that we'd quite cheerf

Environment committee  Good afternoon. Thank you for the opportunity to be with you today. I would like to begin by acknowledging that we are on the unceded territory of the Algonquin nation. This fact needs to shape our discussions here. It's not just something that we say before we go about our busi

International Trade committee  I'm not a trade specialist, so I'll have to be careful. My organization focuses on the mining industry. By the way, what we advocate for is responsible mining.

International Trade committee  Not in all cases, unfortunately.

International Trade committee  Yes, but I think that has been the subject of discussion at another committee over the last month or two, so--

International Trade committee  With the time we have available, I'm not sure it's constructive to go into details country by country, or company by company, of the cases and allegations. The linkages that have been brought forward—

International Trade committee  Sorry, your question was about the Canadian mining industry as a whole—

International Trade committee  I was commenting initially, and trying to be very precise, on Colombia. But if you're asking whether I think Canadian companies are acting in full corporate social responsibility all the time, I did say no. If you would like to look at the case of New Gold in San Luis Potosi, Mex

International Trade committee  We did not find a direct link between any Canadian companies and any specific acts of violence. We did find the potential that this could be the case and we could not exclude it. And we did not find that either the actions of the Canadian government, the Canadian embassy, or the

International Trade committee  I think it's important to keep the layers in mind. We're not talking about the mining company that has purchased a lease clearing people off that land. We're talking about military or paramilitary activity, prior to that happening, that then creates a situation where you can go i

International Trade committee  --that's a separate concern.

International Trade committee  The concern, I think, is principally that the rules that could be introduced would restrict the ability of the Colombian government to take some of the measures that have been recommended by the ombudsman, or that could be recommended in the future, to redress some of the issues

International Trade committee  Can we respond?