Finance committee  No, in fact it is the contrary of that. Under the Investment Canada Act undertakings that are made are not made public.

Finance committee  What I can say is that the act contains strong protections with respect to information both to protect the Canadian businesses as well as foreign investors. It is a matter of commercial confidence essentially.

Finance committee  I'm not familiar with the particular cases that you are referring to.

Finance committee  I'm just not in a position to debate the merits of those parts of the act either way.

Finance committee  If I could just make one point of clarification, it is that this is not a government sale. The federal government privatized Nordion in 1991, so—

Finance committee  I'm going to turn to my colleague, Mr. Gardiner. His department is responsible for taking the lead on consultations with the Ktunaxa.

Finance committee  In their totality? Are you referring to a broader concept of obligations and rights than just in reference to the aboriginal issues?

Finance committee  I see. It really is too early to discuss the specifics around what the sale would entail, but the notion would really be that the federal government is stepping away from significant parts of this property, therefore ceding the property to provincial jurisdiction, effectively.

Finance committee  All of the aspects that come with land ownership would then be transferred to another party.

Finance committee  Good afternoon. I'm Soren Halverson. I work in the economic development and corporate finance branch of the Department of Finance. With me is Elisha Ram, my colleague also at Finance. Tim Gardiner of Natural Resources Canada is also here. On August 30, 2013, the Government of C

Finance committee  As you mentioned, the land is situated in a beautiful area of the country. It's also an area that is well known for the high quality metallurgical coking coal resource that is available there. Parts of the Dominion Coal Blocks have been identified as being very prospective from t

Finance committee  The contemplated action doesn't necessarily involve the divestment of all parts of the parcels for coal mining. As I mentioned there are areas that are more prospective. As you mentioned there are also areas of the parcel, the Flathead, which have been acknowledged both by the pr

Finance committee  The aboriginal right is based on constitutional principles and would not be extinguished through the provisions of this act.

Finance committee  To my knowledge there is no contemplation to convert this area to a national park. However, having said that, there is an existing commitment to its ongoing protection, so I think those two statements can exist simultaneously.

Finance committee  Ridley currently provides services on commercial terms to multiple users. It's the government's intent to have that kind of relationship continue, that services are made available to multi-users on a commercial basis.