Foreign Affairs committee  Are you asking me on a personal basis?

Foreign Affairs committee  Frankly, our land mass is our sovereign territory, and if somebody sends a plane over, it's a form of communication, and we should communicate back. Does that mean we should engage in a dogfight? Not likely. It very rarely happens. But of course we should be capable and willing t

Foreign Affairs committee  Sure. First of all, it's a great question. I think governments and people can only address what they're capable of addressing. I believe from a macro perspective it is very important to be concerned about and to try to figure out on a global scale how to address climate change o

Foreign Affairs committee  Absolutely. Fourteen years ago when we founded the company, we had a vision that we knew wasn't technically possible at that time, but we tried to think ahead a decade as to what was the art of the possible and to have convergence bring the technology together. Really in terms of

Foreign Affairs committee  From my perspective, obviously diamonds are a significant opportunity. They grow in kimberlite and they're easy to find with our technology. It's like turning on a Christmas tree and identifying where the lights are. But diamonds aren't the most important resource we find. Obviou

Foreign Affairs committee  May I offer a thought, for what it's worth. I couldn't agree more about the complexity of a 600-page report. I used to trade in derivatives. An eight-second conversation would turn into a 322-page document. It astonished me every time. In business, when we look at business oppo

Foreign Affairs committee  Canada is a resource-based economy, or there's a foundation of its being a resource-based economy. This has created a level of stability in our country that few other countries have the pleasure of enjoying. That, combined with our socio-economic approach to governance and life,

Foreign Affairs committee  From my perspective, infrastructure is really what you're talking about. Traditionally, globally, infrastructure in most countries has occurred as the result of an opportunity to exploit a resource or something. Infrastructure grows up around that exploitation. In fact, if govern

Foreign Affairs committee  That's exactly it.

Foreign Affairs committee  We're in a very early stage of discussion with the U.K. government about the Falklands and some of the implications of actually understanding where things are as opposed to blindly defending what may not be useful.

Foreign Affairs committee  That's a very reasonable observation, and it is a concern. The complexity of our thinking when we build a company, especially this one, includes trying to understand the impact we can have, positive or negative, not just on a nation or a company, but on a community as well. I th

Foreign Affairs committee  There is something I always mention to Americans, and Canadians, in describing the north. Most people form southern Ontario, when you talk about northern Canada, they think of Muskoka and they feel very happy. There used to be a sign as you pass through Bracebridge that you are h

Foreign Affairs committee  Mr. Chairman, honoured members of the committee, thanks for your invitation to be here today to share my thoughts on the resource aspect of the Arctic sovereignty question. I'm going to read sparsely from notes, but I am going to try to speak from my own passion. My family has