Finance committee  I know there are pros to the model in the territories. I also know there have been some issues with some water boards and things like that. Northern Saskatchewan and the federal government actually had a joint federal-provincial uranium panel back in the 1990s that worked very w

Finance committee  It's going to be a different environment. The only way you can have people who have used marijuana in a workplace is if they're not in a safety sensitive position and they have a prescription. You can control the people who are legally using marijuana. Right now you're not all

Finance committee  Absolutely. The risk of people using a legal substance will increase, and the impairment effects can be much longer lasting with marijuana than on other substances such as alcohol.

Finance committee  Are you including north of 56?

Finance committee  You know, I would agree with you. I think the investment in infrastructure is important. When we look at northern Saskatchewan, we have half a dozen gold mines that are literally a stone's throw off Highway 102, which is one of the only roads in northern Saskatchewan. If you ha

Finance committee  Most of our members are publicly traded. We have a couple that would be more state-owned enterprises, but most of them are large global publicly traded companies.

Finance committee  That's part of the problem. We're not sure how we're going to deal with it. I don't think anybody is sure. There's no real good testing mechanism in place that's not really invasive. That would cause human rights issues in terms of the fact that you can't go around giving somebod

Finance committee  There likely are. This is a really important issue. There's no issue that's more important to the mining sector than safety. We cannot afford to have people injured or killed because of a rush to put in place a policy that is not well thought out in our minds. There may be a time

Finance committee  They're part of working committees right now, but they have nothing in place.

Finance committee  No, we don't even know if there will be an impairment level.

Finance committee  Right now, we're seeing basically a waterfall approach to designation of different species that are either endangered or threatened. As soon as something becomes threatened and listed, a recovery strategy is required that talks about what activities might be permissible. However,

Finance committee  Thank you for the question. I want to note that eight of the 10 presenters have asked for money in this presentation. I'm not asking for any money for the mining industry. I'm primarily looking for a good regulatory system that will help us generate wealth. It's not that the oth

Finance committee  I would start by saying a predictable regulatory system is probably more important than tax breaks. The mineral exploration tax credit that I believe you were referring to is an innovation that was developed in Canada when Minister Goodale was minister of natural resources a long

Finance committee  Chair, members of the committee, Clerk, fellow witnesses, my name is Pam Schwann, and I am president of the Saskatchewan Mining Association. Bonjour. Thank you for the opportunity to appear today. The SMA is the voice of the Saskatchewan exploration and mining industry, represe

Finance committee  I think the short answer is that we've been fortunate that in our sector in the Regina region, we haven't seen the degree of layoffs that perhaps the oil and gas sector has seen. I think Estevan was the leading place in Canada for expansion and they rapidly lost a lot of employme