Natural Resources committee  Thank you.

Natural Resources committee  I'll try and answer one or two of your questions. First of all, you talked about competitiveness, how we've lost ground, and this is in the mining association's annual report. We're now second to Australia with respect to place for investment, so it's clear it's augmented. That'

Natural Resources committee  Absolutely. I'll try to answer that very quickly. At the council level, one of our directors is a member of the Missinabie Cree Nation and the former chief from 2001 to 2010. He's on our board. He's the former president of the Prospectors and Developers Association of Canada and

Natural Resources committee  Yes.

Natural Resources committee  Again, we're both in natural resources. We're their sister organization and we reach out to each other to see what the common areas are. Low-grade energy recovery is a significant issue for forestry, for oil and gas as well, and for the mining industry. So our strategic partner

Natural Resources committee  Yes.

Natural Resources committee  Absolutely. That model certainly would work. An example of that being talked about around Ottawa is an infrastructure investment bank, for infrastructure in northern Canada. It's the same sort of idea, with capital put in by the federal government. You don't touch the capital, an

Natural Resources committee  Leaning on what Jean said, I would like to add how we're approaching with respect to risk. We had a panel of mining CEOs meeting a couple of years ago, and they landed on three things. One of these was that we need to add innovation of the mining industry to the relationship with

Natural Resources committee  That's a great question, and I was hoping you would bring it up. There are a couple of things. One, as Jean talked about before, is that we were accelerating in getting more industry involved and getting more projects defined, so the scope of Towards Zero Waste Mining has increas

Natural Resources committee  Just to bolster what Jean said and to answer your question, the best practices are industry-led. CMIC is industry-led, COREM is industry-led, IMII out of Saskatchewan is industry-led. Those are the best practices, and this is true in Australia as well. Best practices: industry-le

Natural Resources committee  That's a great idea. We actually, with our former chair a couple of years ago, sat down with some high-profile individual investors looking at creating a foundation with their investments, versus those of the federal government, to make CMIC and the mining industry more sustainab

Natural Resources committee  That's a great question. I'm going to take some of it, and Jean and others will jump in as well. On the competitiveness front, we're actually losing ground for the first time in decades. We rank number two, after Australia, as a place for exploration investment. We're losing gr

Natural Resources committee  That's perfect, thank you for the question. I'm glad you brought that up. If you hadn't, I would have. As I mentioned at the start, in Canada approximately 7,000 different programs fund research, development, and innovation. It's significant. It's all across the board. There are

Natural Resources committee  I think we need to. If you're looking at research and fundamental discovery, you do need that sort of opportunity where you have numerous programs where people with good ideas can apply, so we do still have to do that. If we want focus, we need to identify the strategic areas of

Natural Resources committee  We have to look at the oil and gas and mining industries. They're a little bit different. The COSIA model is fairly centrally located. The processes are fairly homogeneous. In the mining business, the hard rock business, it's significantly different. Even tailings in a mine site