Natural Resources committee  A great deal of the economic and job potential of the Canadian economy going forward is going to depend on our ability to bring new products, new services, and new resources to market. I think we need to look at the development and discovery of new resources and at production—how

Natural Resources committee  Overall it's about 20%.

Natural Resources committee  We haven't really done an analysis looking at the refining and upgrading part, but I know that the fuel association has looked at the spinoffs of the refining. Clearly, if we were to develop more refining capacity, more upgrading capacity, there would be much more opportunity for

Natural Resources committee  Exactly, especially in the future. The future of the Canadian economy is going to be based on our ability to use new technologies and on our ability to build things and to incorporate services in those as well. The oil sands, in providing energy and resource development generally

Natural Resources committee  Can I just add a couple of things that I'm seeing? One is that because of some of the capacity constraints around where these projects are occurring, and particularly in Alberta and in Saskatchewan, companies are changing the way they're operating. We're seeing a lot of companie

Natural Resources committee  Thank you very much, Mr. Chair. Good morning, everybody. I would like to speak specifically to an analysis that we've completed of the economic benefits, particularly for Canada's manufacturing sector, of the oil sands developments and investments in the oil sands, although I'd

Subcommittee of the Standing Committee on Finance on Bill C-38 committee  No, I don't. In fact, I think what the bill does, by setting some timelines, by setting out a process that can actually be understood and that eliminates the duplication and the unnecessary uncertainty and time delays that are built into approval processes right now, is that is d

Subcommittee of the Standing Committee on Finance on Bill C-38 committee  Clearly, if you're building up a supply chain across the country, then you're employing Mr. Smillie's members in manufacturing, and this is exactly what we've seen. We've tended tonight to focus our comments specifically around oil sands. We've been involved for a number of years

Subcommittee of the Standing Committee on Finance on Bill C-38 committee  If we stopped resource development in the country, I think certainly the impact would be far beyond manufacturing. But I think for every job in the resource sector, you're probably looking at eight jobs around that in terms of manufacturing or services employment.

Subcommittee of the Standing Committee on Finance on Bill C-38 committee  I think probably Denise is in a better position to give you an example of how much might be expended on a nuclear project. Let me say, with respect to some smaller enterprises, that we'll not have to now go through this convoluted system of proposals that can take an environment

Subcommittee of the Standing Committee on Finance on Bill C-38 committee  That's right.

Subcommittee of the Standing Committee on Finance on Bill C-38 committee  With respect to your first question, and building on what Mr. Collyer said, the issues around investment and the mobility of capital today are issues that affect resource development in every sector: resources, upgrading those resources, infrastructure development, and manufactur

Subcommittee of the Standing Committee on Finance on Bill C-38 committee  Thank you very much, Mr. Chair. Good evening, ladies and gentlemen. Thank you for the invitation to comment on Bill C-38. Thanks very much for inviting me to appear at this subcommittee and to discuss the implications of Bill C-38 on responsible resource development in Canada