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Subcommittee of the Standing Committee on Finance on Bill C-38 committee Timelines are helpful and bring a rigour to the process. There are certainly opportunities within those timelines for federal officials to request new information. That's two years of government time, or one year under a comprehensive study, not the whole time. But I think timeli
May 28th, 2012Committee meeting
Pierre Gratton
May 28th, 2012Committee meeting
Pierre Gratton
Subcommittee of the Standing Committee on Finance on Bill C-38 committee I'm not exactly sure what dollar figure I would attach to the actual cost of bringing it forward. I would say that for junior mining companies, inefficiencies in that process can cost them the project completely. That's why timeliness and predictability are important to smaller c
May 28th, 2012Committee meeting
Pierre Gratton
Subcommittee of the Standing Committee on Finance on Bill C-38 committee Yes. Actually, this is a feature that you'll find at the provincial level. In B.C., for example, environmental assessments come with conditions—in some cases, many conditions. This is an example of the federal government catching up to the provinces and bringing forward this atta
May 28th, 2012Committee meeting
Pierre Gratton
Subcommittee of the Standing Committee on Finance on Bill C-38 committee Well, we often look to Australia as a principal competitor of ours, and they've been able to complete environmental assessments in as little as six months to a year, or sometimes a year and a half. This brings Canada more in line with Australia, which is obviously something we we
May 28th, 2012Committee meeting
Pierre Gratton
Subcommittee of the Standing Committee on Finance on Bill C-38 committee As I and other witnesses have said—including witnesses earlier this evening—I don't believe that these changes in any way.... It's all about process. It has nothing to do with the quality of environmental assessment. On the extent to which there are measures in here that you coul
May 28th, 2012Committee meeting
Pierre Gratton
Subcommittee of the Standing Committee on Finance on Bill C-38 committee In the history of federal-provincial assessment, there has only been one mining project on which the two governments disagreed. In every other case, both assessments came to the exact same conclusion, which begs the question as to whether it's really necessary to have two reviews
May 28th, 2012Committee meeting
Pierre Gratton
Subcommittee of the Standing Committee on Finance on Bill C-38 committee —either the province or the federal government, to undertake it.
May 28th, 2012Committee meeting
Pierre Gratton
Subcommittee of the Standing Committee on Finance on Bill C-38 committee What are the costs to each province and territory? No, I can't say that I'm aware of that. I don't understand the purpose of the question either.
May 28th, 2012Committee meeting
Pierre Gratton
Subcommittee of the Standing Committee on Finance on Bill C-38 committee Yes, and I think our provincial and federal governments can come to an understanding on whether, for example, the Quebec environmental assessment system, le BAPE, which is considered to be one of the strongest in the country, can cover off assessments of mining projects.
May 28th, 2012Committee meeting
Pierre Gratton
Subcommittee of the Standing Committee on Finance on Bill C-38 committee The Auditor General, in her 2008 review of the Canadian Environmental Assessment Act, concluded that the government was not able to demonstrate that the screening level was reviewed and had provided Canadians with any environmental benefit. That was largely the impetus behind the
May 28th, 2012Committee meeting
Pierre Gratton
Subcommittee of the Standing Committee on Finance on Bill C-38 committee The problem is, I am not quite sure I understand the question. We did participate in the standing committee's review of the act.
May 28th, 2012Committee meeting
Pierre Gratton
Subcommittee of the Standing Committee on Finance on Bill C-38 committee We have participated and made our views known with respect to CEAA for as long as I can remember—for as long as I have been working at the Mining Association of Canada.
May 28th, 2012Committee meeting
Pierre Gratton
Subcommittee of the Standing Committee on Finance on Bill C-38 committee You asked me that already, and I said yes. With the replacement, I think this is a better bill.
May 28th, 2012Committee meeting
Pierre Gratton
Subcommittee of the Standing Committee on Finance on Bill C-38 committee It's not so. If you read our January briefing, we actually—
May 28th, 2012Committee meeting
Pierre Gratton