Natural Resources committee  I guess I'd echo that about the infrastructure, particularly things like redundancy in communications. That satellite outage, which many of you may have known about earlier this fall, had a very significant impact, not only on our operations but on communities and businesses all

Natural Resources committee  I would add that duplication of process is absolutely an issue. Jurisdiction is another issue. The assessors do their work, and the regulators usually wait until the assessors have done all of their work before starting anything. There could be some concurrent processes where t

Natural Resources committee  We're at great risk of losing investment capital. Newmont is a global company. The capital will go to the best projects in the world. So the projects in Canada have to compete with those other projects. If all the factors combined mean that projects in another part of the world a

Natural Resources committee  Could I just add to that? In answer to your question about specific training programs, every mining company has a training plan that takes local people and puts them into various positions. We've also worked very closely with many of the training associations, the Yukon, Northwes

Natural Resources committee  Thank you, Chris. Another important aspect of northern development, which I believe you'll hear from all of the industrial representatives, is infrastructure. Nunavut and the entire north is infrastructure challenged, from the aging and inefficient community power plants, to lim