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Finance committee Well, I'll agree with your calculation in the premise of the statistic that you're showing, but—
October 24th, 2012Committee meeting
Mark Scholz
Finance committee Well, the Northern Gateway pipeline would allow us to get international pricing for our commodities, and that certainly is going to be beneficial to all Canadians.
October 24th, 2012Committee meeting
Mark Scholz
Finance committee That's income that we can put into different social programs and other things that run our country.
October 24th, 2012Committee meeting
Mark Scholz
Finance committee Absolutely.
October 24th, 2012Committee meeting
Mark Scholz
Finance committee In particular, if the United States becomes energy sufficient and secure, it certainly is going to be a huge problem for Canadian crude producers.
October 24th, 2012Committee meeting
Mark Scholz
Finance committee Well, we have a systemic labour problem in western Canada, and there are just not enough people to run our operations.
October 24th, 2012Committee meeting
Mark Scholz
Finance committee I think it's because we have an obvious lack of infrastructure that could supply the various markets in Canada.
October 24th, 2012Committee meeting
Mark Scholz
Finance committee At the end of the day, I think diversifying and getting multiple customers for your product just makes sense.
October 24th, 2012Committee meeting
Mark Scholz
Finance committee Those types of questions are the reason why I brought Doug. Do you want to address that?
October 24th, 2012Committee meeting
Mark Scholz
Finance committee Good afternoon. Thank you for the opportunity to appear before the House of Commons finance committee. Your job is to recommend to the government measures that will strengthen the economy. I can do that for you in two sentences. We want a government that will defend and promote
February 19th, 2016Committee meeting
Mark Scholz
Finance committee There are approximately 160 drilling rigs working today, out of a fleet of about 750. In terms of comparison, there were about 300 at the same time last year, and then in 2014 around 500.
February 19th, 2016Committee meeting
Mark Scholz
Finance committee There were about 500 rigs.
February 19th, 2016Committee meeting
Mark Scholz
Finance committee That's a difficult question to answer. I would say that at the current market price, there are very few fields in western Canada that are competitive at $30. If we do not see a significant turnaround in terms of overall commodity pricing, this is just not a sustainable business i
February 19th, 2016Committee meeting
Mark Scholz
Finance committee No. In fact, when you look at just the drilling industry, you see that our operations range right across western Canada, from southern Manitoba across Saskatchewan and Alberta and into northeast British Columbia. Then, of course, we also represent the offshore drilling rig indust
February 19th, 2016Committee meeting
Mark Scholz
Finance committee We have come out publicly in support of an initiative that Premier Wall has presented. It's what I think is a very targeted program that would inject activity into the specific industry and the very small businesses that are in desperate need right now. I think programs like this
February 19th, 2016Committee meeting
Mark Scholz