Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Yes. Look, I work in the nuts and bolts of mining applications and YESAB stuff. One thing that does seem to work is that when you look at the type of class activity in mining—class 1, class 2, class 3, and that sort of stuff—you get triggers happening. This happens in YESAB as

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  No, with all due respect. On the idea of having these triggers done by the decision body, we could get into situations where we have governments, for argument's sake, that could be quite pro development. They will decide that you aren't triggering and you don't need to do anothe

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Yes. By providing firm numbers or firm amounts, you do provide certainty, and you get around a lot of this stuff. I mean, we can't even agree on what the definition of “consultation” is. Once you start throwing numbers out there, things get a bit firmer.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Yes. I think anytime you have uncertainty you have an impact on business; I assume this is where the direction is going. We all want certainty. I mean, we're not stupid; we know that business creates wealth. It creates jobs. But it has to be done right. Anytime you get into th

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Yes. For some of the complicated projects, I would argue that the extensions might not be enough. I'm going to offer an example—

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  There are timelines, I believe, where projects eventually expire. Is that not correct?

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  That might be a good thing, because if a project goes through without adequate adequacy being done.... If I can refer to the project that was known as the Carmax Copper Mine that went through YESAB with everybody screaming and kicking, it got rejected by the water board because i

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Yes, the comments you've quoted are a bit disturbing. We tend to regard this move to try to standardize environmental assessments, not just across the north but in Canada, as almost a race to the bottom. You find a jurisdiction that has, from the environmental point of view, the

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  I'm going to say that it depends. It depends on the type of project. What I find, when commenting on projects, is that one tends to see the same groups or individuals submitting on, for example, placer mining applications, or within a traditional territory. On extending the tim

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Good afternoon, and welcome to Yukon. My name is Lewis Rifkind and I'm the mining analyst for the Yukon Conservation Society. I would like to acknowledge that we are on the traditional territory of the Kwanlin Dun and Ta'an Kwach'an first nations. The Yukon Conservation Society