Natural Resources committee  It can vary. I don't have a lot of detail. The shortages are across all categories of worker, whether it's an engineer, a geologist, or a truck driver. It's everything. I think a lot of the foreign workers have tended to be more on the professional level, but going forward it

Natural Resources committee  Do I include the oil sands or not? We're at about 2%, not including the oil sands. Of course, it's quite a bit bigger when you include the oil sands.

Natural Resources committee  Yes.

Natural Resources committee  We as an association have been reporting member company GHG emissions for over a decade, and on a site basis too, not just an aggregate basis. We also have, as part of Towards Sustainable Mining, a specific performance indicator dealing with greenhouse gas management, and members

Natural Resources committee  If you're an energy-intensive industry like ours, there are a lot of built-in incentives to reduce your greenhouse gases, because really you're reducing your costs.

Natural Resources committee  It is mostly, yes.

Natural Resources committee  To be honest, off the top of my head, I don't know the answer. A good number of them. We do have as members some of the major multinationals you've heard of, Xstrata and Valley, but we also have Teck, and we have a number of...IAMGOLD, Inmet, Barrick. There's a range of major Ca

Natural Resources committee  Outside of Alberta, which has made more use of that, at this point, I'll be honest, not a lot. We think there's the potential for it to become very important in the future. We face a major human resources shortage right now. We have one of the oldest workforces in the country. It

Natural Resources committee  Yes.

Natural Resources committee  It is for the most part operating mines. We have some members who are in very advanced stages of development. Take, for example, Newmont, which is a global international mining company but which has within Canada an advanced project in Nunavut, but not actually an operating min

Natural Resources committee  It depends on how you define a Canadian company. There are estimates of some 1,400 companies listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange. They don't all operate in Canada, and a lot of them are junior exploration companies. There is an organization called the Prospectors and Developers

Natural Resources committee  Public geoscience is one of the most fundamental building blocks of any minerals economy, to be honest. It is one of the things that will influence a company's desire to invest in the jurisdiction. I say public geoscience; it's the first phase of work to try to identify where the

Natural Resources committee  I can give you a really good example. It comes from British Columbia. In this case it was a provincial program, but it illustrates the point. I used to work in B.C. until recently; that's why it's familiar to me. There is an operating mine, Huckleberry Mine, which is a copper-go

Natural Resources committee  We have 36 full members at the moment.

Natural Resources committee  Yes. I've handed out copies to everyone. I'm going to flip through it rather quickly, in light of the time constraints. I did want to start by first off acknowledging a lot of Ramsey's comments. It may surprise some of you, but I'm going to support a lot of the comments he's ma