Environment committee  I'm sorry, who is the question to?

Environment committee  I'm a historian, but I'm not entirely sure, sir.

Environment committee  I'm not sure I quite understand your question. Could you please rephrase?

Environment committee  I guess that the answer would be yes. In this respect, if we take a look at the overall capacity of the oil sands, in terms of what it is we're looking at with that resource, the Alberta Energy and Utilities Board.... Taking a look at the size of the reserve itself plus figuring

Environment committee  I haven't seen anything yet.

Environment committee  Mr. Lussier, I think that may be a slight error in terms of the translation. The sentence that begins in that part of the presentation begins, “I hope this is not taken to mean that the government at both the federal and provincial levels played a passive role, because they certa

Environment committee  Thank you, Mr. Bigras, for your question. I do not have the exact statistic in front of me right now, but I can confirm that the free trade agreement between Canada and the United States does contain a provision regarding the amount of energy that must be exported by Canada to t

Environment committee  Well, Mr. Godfrey, we can always use more historians, and in this sense I prefer to quote Mark Twain, who was very fond of saying that history doesn't repeat itself, but it does rhyme. You're quite right to point out that when oil sands development began, how much of a concern

Environment committee  Thank you, Mr. Mills. It is indeed an honour to appear before this committee today, and I hope I can say something of worth to you. I should point out that I'm a trained historian. I earned my PhD in history from Ohio University. I am currently the director of the University of