Natural Resources committee  I'll be honest, I don't think the response has been all that.... It's just an alternative way they chose to address it. We've been having ongoing discussions with Natural Resources Canada on this particular aspect just in the last week.

Natural Resources committee  Yes. That's right.

Natural Resources committee  I would just add that it's the materiality question, which I think CAPP also raised. In securities law, it does take into account the materiality. If in your disclosure you're off by a dollar, through securities legislation, it's kind of irrelevant. You can correct it later. But

Natural Resources committee  I think Ben made the comment at the very beginning of his opening remarks that we have to remember who the target is here. This is not going after companies, per se. The target here is to try to fight corruption within governments, particularly in some countries around the world.

Natural Resources committee  I'll just comment on the issue of payments to aboriginal entities. This was not part of our work together. It was a deliberate decision. It wasn't an oversight. We felt that this would be an undertaking that would require a lot more time, and it's not really the thrust behind t

Natural Resources committee  May I add one point here on the issue of equivalency? We have always hoped this would be enabled through provincial securities legislation, but besides Quebec no province has yet committed to doing so. Quebec hasn't done anything yet. They have just said they will. But we certai

Natural Resources committee  It's just one example. We want equivalency with the EU, the U.K., and the United States, but probably more than anything else, when the provinces come on with securities legislation, we would want the federal government to immediately acknowledge that reporting through securities

Agriculture committee  I think it's very important. We are facing a future of a rising demand from Asian markets. There is going to be a demand for more of our products going west, and the CETA with Europe is going to potentially increase exports going east. We have a vast country; a lot of it is lan

Agriculture committee  It is our view that in the system you can't make a change in one place without expecting a consequence elsewhere. We do expect regardless of what they may say that we're going to feel it; we're going to feel it far afield and we're going to feel it nearby. There will be a price t

Agriculture committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair, members of the committee, clerk, and fellow attendees. I appreciate this opportunity. I didn't think I'd have an opportunity to speak to the agriculture committee in this role of mine. The Canadian mining industry is a major economic driver contributing ove

Human Resources committee  If I may, I want to jump in before we run out of time to share an anecdote and also to partly answer your question. There is another initiative that I got involved with in B.C., the Breakfast Club of Canada. Let's not overlook that a hungry child doesn't do well in school. When

Human Resources committee  B.C. AMTA was created under a previous program, the ASEP program, the aboriginal skills and employment partnership program, which sunset in 2012, I believe. This picks up on the comment about the uncertainty. It was created very explicitly under a program that had a number of su

Human Resources committee  I'm not familiar enough with the competencies of the ASETS holders in Williams Lake, so it's hard for me to answer that specifically. With B.C. AMTA or the Mine Training Society, elsewhere you have this partnership, you have the support from industry and the educators, and you

Human Resources committee  Sure, and thank you very much. You have before you a copy of our presentation, but I'm not actually going to go through it. It's there for you to consider at your leisure. There's quite a lot of information in there, and in a few minutes I'll turn to slide 8 entitled Aboriginal

Environment committee  The program is based on a system with five levels of performance. The objective of each mining site is to be at level 3 at least and, in principle, to go up to level 5. I am talking about level A or AAA. We have replaced the number system with the letter system. When you reach le