Natural Resources committee  Yes, exactly.

Natural Resources committee  Yes. There's Ezeflow. There's Canam, which is a major manufacturer of structural steel products. We can certainly provide a list of companies—

Natural Resources committee  That's correct. That's been a fairly constant trend over the last ten years.

Natural Resources committee  You're creating a tremendous amount of demand for manufactured products, so it's creating jobs in a couple of ways that I've seen. First of all, in some areas like structural steel or steel tubes, pumps, valves, it's just an increase in demand, so of course the more massive prod

Natural Resources committee  I'll give you one example. Promation is a company that was....This is the other part of the opportunity, because it's at a time when we're coming out of a recession. The oil sands provide an opportunity for many companies to transition from auto, for example, that isn't doing as

Natural Resources committee  To be able to develop the economic diversification we've been talking about and the value-added businesses and jobs around energy development, we need investment, particularly in new products that drive new processes. It's as true in upgrading and refining as it is in the entire

Natural Resources committee  Labour mobility is a major issue. We talk about the details of the bill and, generally, we need to look at what can facilitate better labour mobility. It's more than simply subsidizing travel. I think it's also.... I meet a lot of people flying from the Maritimes, for example, ou

Natural Resources committee  —are reluctant to make that move. So, it's about the training of young people and reducing that apprenticeship age. I think companies have to take a much more active part in training and in apprenticeships, so we need to think about how they can do that here. To me, a part of t

Natural Resources committee  Let me give you maybe two examples. One is the difference in welding standards in Alberta. The qualifications for a welder in Alberta are so high that it makes sense for companies to manufacture and to weld outside of Alberta and to import into Alberta, increasing the cost of th

Natural Resources committee  Definitely, by becoming more efficient, by increasing productivity, and this is important not only for consumers but for industry as well.... One of the biggest challenges that producers in energy face, and in resource development generally, is the need to lower the cost of the p

Natural Resources committee  As Roger Larson said, it makes so much sense to have a one-window approach so that companies operating across Canada do not face a multiplicity of different compliance requirements. It isn't an issue about the regulatory outcome. We should be focusing on what delivers health, saf

Natural Resources committee  Maybe I could go first and just say yes, clearly there would be. I think what we need to do is look at what could encourage that type of investment to happen, looking at all parts of the investment equation there. But clearly, providing more value added in the processing, as well

Natural Resources committee  I would add that this is more, I think, than an issue of getting approvals for projects or, on a transactional basis, of companies needing workers. What I see in aboriginal communities is not only a great deal of skills development, but of communities being intent on taking that

Natural Resources committee  I totally agree. Around the projects themselves, it provides greater certainty. That just backs up all the way through the supply chain in terms of potential customers, potential business, which is extremely important. I think what I would very much like to see is that same stre

Natural Resources committee  First of all, I think the whole point of our analysis is that we shouldn't look at the extractive sectors in isolation. An awful lot of manufacturing, construction, utilities, service sector and public services are all part of that. I think I would agree with everyone who says,