Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  What you're saying is that, if it's extraterritorial, then it's fraught with these types of difficulties, and that's been our point. It's very hard to do a proper assessment using the powers of compelling testimony and witnesses.

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  Well, you just raised the extraterritorial issue. That's why I'm confused by what you're saying.

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  If you're trying to uncover what happened in a particular part of the world that is not Canada—say it's the Philippines, say it's Peru or say it's Colombia—and you want to find out what happened and you need to compel the testimony of non-Canadians, I don't think you're going to

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  Then you won't get the full story.

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  Thank you. Canadian mining has a significant international presence, as Lisa just mentioned, with 650 companies in almost 100 countries. However, we are no longer the world's top mining country. Indeed, Australia's two biggest companies exceed the net asset value of the entire C

Natural Resources committee  Our sector has a complicated relationship with China. They're the largest consumer of minerals and metals. Our industry is enjoying buoyant commodity prices more or less across the board right now, and it's largely because China's economy has rebounded, but it's also true that th

Natural Resources committee  I guess this goes to one of the core questions that this study is about. How do we create the North American demand for these products? What is the downstream pull that we can create so that it is more viable than going to China for these products? The automotive sector and the b

Natural Resources committee  For the federal one, that involves an impact assessment, an environmental assessment, and that takes several years.

Natural Resources committee  The timelines that it takes to get mines through both federal and provincial processes present a real risk to our ability to take advantage of this opportunity. There's no question.

Natural Resources committee  I think it will be very hard on rural Canada. I think we're already seeing some of the impacts on parts of rural Canada. We're not building and developing mines at the pace that we used to. Part of it is that we're not finding them. We have explored southern Canada a lot and we h

Natural Resources committee  We're on the public record as being in support of carbon pricing and we have been for years, but we've also said that we have to be sensitive to Canada's north, large parts of which are off-grid and—

Natural Resources committee  Am I done, too, then?

Natural Resources committee  Who would like to answer?

Natural Resources committee  You got that right. Yes.

Natural Resources committee  We have seen over the past decade a gradual decline in our percentage share of mineral exploration spending, which is, of course—