Finance committee  —in a carbon-constrained future. But the issue is that if B.C. does it alone, it gives an advantage to other jurisdictions that don't have a carbon tax. The question then becomes how to create a level playing field, which B.C. has attempted to do by staying relatively revenue-neu

Finance committee  We made some really good strides last year with amendments that were long in coming—amendments made to the Canadian Environmental Assessment Act that put the Canadian Environmental Assessment Agency in charge. Now, this may sound funny. We have had the agency for years, and prob

Finance committee  One way to look at this is to look at what is currently happening in Australia. Canada was the largest destination for mineral exploration spending until about 1992. Then things started to turn, and Australia took over first place. In 2002 Canada became number one again, and we'v

Finance committee  Do I still have a minute?

Finance committee  Okay. So what do we need to do going forward? I want to focus on the single most important thing you can do. In order to enable this $137 billion to actually happen, or at least a good part of it, we need an efficient environmental review process. Resources were provided by the

Finance committee  Oh. We thought we each had five, and then we thought we didn't, and then we thought we did again.

Finance committee  We've come a long way for this, you know.

Finance committee  Okay. We are very related. We are independent from each other, but I used to have her job until June, so I do understand this province a little bit as a result, if I haven't forgotten too much. We're also similar in that we both represent the producing side of the mining busine