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Industry committee  Sure. Thank you for the question. It's nice to see you, Viviane. I've touched on the METC and public geoscience already, so maybe I'll leave those two issues aside. I've also touched on the need to focus on accelerating the regulatory process. Let me, then, skip further downstre

February 4th, 2022Committee meeting

Pierre Gratton

Industry committee  I appreciate that question. It was a platform commitment of your party. For the reasons that the committee has discussed today, this is a race. Doubling the mineral exploration tax credit for critical minerals would put Canada way out in front of every other country in the world

February 4th, 2022Committee meeting

Pierre Gratton

Industry committee  Yes, but where would it go—

February 4th, 2022Committee meeting

Pierre Gratton

Industry committee  It would make us more attractive than other places. You're right. The commodity prices are going to stimulate more exploration into these materials worldwide, but where they go worldwide is an open question. The METC would make sure that Canada—which is always near the top—would

February 4th, 2022Committee meeting

Pierre Gratton

Industry committee  Well, building a new mine takes time. What our brief focuses on is that we really need to look at every stage of the value chain. We need to have more discoveries. There's been a dearth of base metal exploration in Canada for the last 15 to 20 years. There's been a dearth worldw

February 4th, 2022Committee meeting

Pierre Gratton

Industry committee  Yes, it definitely does. From discovery to construction, it can take as long as 10 years. It depends on where. It depends on what. It depends on the level of indigenous support for the project. There is a range of factors. Some can be permitted faster than that. It really depends

February 4th, 2022Committee meeting

Pierre Gratton

Industry committee  That's right.

February 4th, 2022Committee meeting

Pierre Gratton

Industry committee  I wouldn't say that were lagging behind, but it's important to realize that it is a race. We have advantages that many countries do not in terms of battery production because we have all the minerals required and strong businesses, refineries and foundries. Other countries do not

February 4th, 2022Committee meeting

Pierre Gratton

Industry committee  We have one lithium mine in Canada, so we have a long way to go. There are a lot of lithium deposits across the country. We need to attract the capital and start developing them. Lithium is just one of the many materials that go into a battery. We're much stronger on some of th

February 4th, 2022Committee meeting

Pierre Gratton

Industry committee  Thank you very much, Mr. Chair. My name is Pierre Gratton, and I am president of the Mining Association of Canada, as you said. I'm here with my colleague, Brendan Marshall, who is vice-president for economic affairs. To help frame the issue, it's important to differentiate bet

February 4th, 2022Committee meeting

Pierre Gratton

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  OceanaGold is not. Placer doesn't exist anymore, nor does, I think, TVI. Barrick is. They have a mine in Canada. B2Gold is. The others are not.

April 20th, 2021Committee meeting

Pierre Gratton

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  Of course, we all want to raise the bar. That's what we're trying to do through TSM, to raise the bar for everyone, but we can only do what we can do.

April 20th, 2021Committee meeting

Pierre Gratton

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  As other jurisdictions adopt it, it starts to get taken up by more and more, and it starts to apply to more and more. We do what we can.

April 20th, 2021Committee meeting

Pierre Gratton

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  I am not suggesting in any way that TSM is a replacement for government oversight. I'm not suggesting that at all. We were describing what we have done as Canadians, which I think is laudable because even though there are more powerful mining jurisdictions in the world, no other

April 20th, 2021Committee meeting

Pierre Gratton

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  I can't say that every mining company behaves well. Some are better than others. That's true of every company in society. Some are better behaved than others.

April 20th, 2021Committee meeting

Pierre Gratton