Foreign Affairs committee  I'm not a lawyer, but I would say the only way that... Well, there are two institutions that can react. There is the local government: in other words, within their own system. Or alternatively, the company could make a policy decision that if certain acts do occur, along whatever

Foreign Affairs committee  I would like to give evidence that, indeed, Canada did lead the world in the mining industry. In the eighties, the Mining Association of Canada was the first mining association to develop an environmental policy. I know because I was involved. We set up the International Council

Foreign Affairs committee  Without this bill, as I mentioned in my paper, there is a host of issues that have not been properly analyzed. Even the round table identified a host of issues that need further analysis. Let me just make the point that in my view we don't have sufficient understanding of what s

Foreign Affairs committee  I would like to make just one point. One of the problems we find in developing countries is the lack of knowledge of many of the indigenous and other communities that are in the remote areas. I just came back from Peru. There were shootings. There were 34 people killed because an

Foreign Affairs committee  Thank you, Mr. Chairman. My thesis will be that Bill C-300 will create some serious issues for the government and will not be of net benefit to Canada. To begin, I want to clarify that there are not 4,000 mining projects abroad. There are likely fewer than 200 in developing cou