Finance committee  You can tell we talk to the same people. You'd think we worked on our notes together this morning.

Finance committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. Government investment in geoscience and innovation is critical for spurring mineral exploration activity and enhancing the industry's efficiency, productivity and environmental performance. Geological surveys in Canada play a critical role in producing high

Finance committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. Good morning, everybody. Thank you for the invitation and for the opportunity to speak to you this morning. It's great to see some of you again. I've met some of you in the past. I, too, would like to acknowledge and thank Kwanlin Dün First Nation and

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Absolutely, and that was articulated in our opening comments.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  That's not our area of expertise.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  What you have to understand is that we're talking about the Umbrella Final Agreement here, right? The Umbrella Final Agreement we are not a party to—

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Okay.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Just to be clear, at the chamber organization that lobbies on behalf of our membership we're always about compromise and consensus building. That said, certainly we're not in a position to speak to the legislative abilities of the discussions around this moving forward. We just w

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Recognizing the sensitivities around those two specific amendments that you've asked for a position on, we spoke to it a bit earlier, obviously, about the delegation of binding policy direction. With respect to that, that responsibility and that power already exist within the boa

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  You're asking a pretty politically loaded question, right? You're asking as legislators whether we should be thinking like legislators and coming up essentially with a game plan as to how—

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  You've perfectly articulated how industry is between a rock and a hard place.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  I think that's pretty much fair. Exactly what was said—

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  That's not what we said.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Yes, absolutely. I think that if you were to ask any proponent where they would like to have their application vetted, they would have preferences when it comes to offices, because there is a lack of consistency, a lack of consistent, clear, and transparent application of YESAA,

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  I refer back to our opening comments with respect to the fact that we have spoken to how the parties do need to work in respectful ways towards arriving at solutions that provide socio-economic opportunities for Yukoners. It's certainly not our place to say how doing that should