Finance committee  Correct.

Finance committee  The way we're looking at it is this. What messages have the government given in terms of what the opportunity space is? In the last budget, your government messaged that there would be about $800 million, profiled over several years, for somewhere between three and five superclus

Finance committee  Yes, both I and representatives of the innovation space, meaning companies, and frankly partners, including universities, are very well meshed in with both Minister Bains's office and the civil service.

Finance committee  I mentioned in response to an earlier question that we're scientists. We're engineers and Ph.D. scientists, every one of us. We affectionately call ourselves “the geek squad“. As we go about our daily business inside of COSIA, we often retreat back into scientific principles and

Finance committee  That's a very valid point. One of the challenges we find, when we get 13 companies working together in a way that is forging new ground about how large companies interact.... We found that this is about technology and innovation, but it's also about culture. The companies have qu

Finance committee  While all the organizations agree that we are about innovation, technology, cutting costs, and driving environmental performance improvement, they have very different opinions on what role COSIA would play in the communicating itself, compared to what role COSIA would play in dev

Finance committee  I'll make one slight clarification. We have a sister organization called the Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers. They have the lead in policy advocacy and communications. We're scientists. We stick to the innovation front and usually make up our asks and our policy presc

Finance committee  Good morning, and thank you very much for the invitation. I'm the chief executive of an organization called Canada's Oil Sands Innovation Alliance, or COSIA. COSIA was launched about four years ago when the CEOs of the 13 largest oil sands companies in Canada signed a charter. T

Natural Resources committee  Thank you very much to the committee and to you, Mr. Chair.

Natural Resources committee  [Technical difficulty—Editor] to a positive future. Let me give you an example of some of the ways companies are working towards that. Right now it's a difficult operating environment up in northern Alberta to reclaim the land. Much of it is essentially muskeg. It's very difficu

Natural Resources committee  I apologize. I thought I spoke to that right off the bat. I think the future of caribou can actually be managed to a good future. We have endangered species legislation in Alberta. Of course, the Species at Risk Act is overarching federal legislation that gives the Government of

Natural Resources committee  I would just say that the planning processes are unfolding now with all the necessary stakeholders. With these new technologies, I believe there's again a viable future for boreal caribou in Canada.

Natural Resources committee  What I can say is that COSIA is about leverage. It's about companies working together and having synergies: merging properties and doing projects that are too large for each individual company to do, so they have to do them together. If that comment about leverage made sense fo

Natural Resources committee  I'd answer that question by saying that you're absolutely right when you talk about a sequence of events going from research and development to implementation. The best way to implement technologies is to be working on the right technologies to begin with. A poorly tuned and po

Natural Resources committee  I respect your question, but it's getting dangerously close to my non-policy and non-regulatory position. What I would say is this. The companies have a priori defined four key areas: water, land, tailings, and greenhouse gases. From a purely technical perspective, those are the