Natural Resources committee  Let me start and others can join in. I'm glad you brought up the Ring of Fire. Basically, that's a major opportunity, but we've had an impasse. We need to move more quickly on these kinds of developments. If we can't unlock that logjam, and there's federal-provincial and inter-m

Natural Resources committee  It's solvable.

Natural Resources committee  You're right.

Natural Resources committee  You're right though. There are emerging manufacturers—

Natural Resources committee  Yes, sorry.

Natural Resources committee  First of all, I'm a mining engineer. I'm a rock mechanics engineer. In fact, I specialize in that kind of area. Nuclear waste disposal is not an issue. We could dispose of the nuclear waste very easily. The problem is social. Where are you going to put it? Nobody wants it in thei

Natural Resources committee  The first thing is we're a bilingual university, tri-cultural. We have a very strong aboriginal program at Laurentian. As far as the programs go, we're talking about access. We're developing those, trying to get more of that. Our primary target is of course northern Ontario. The

Natural Resources committee  There is no doubt that we're going from diesel to electric. Diesel particulate matter is a known carcinogen, and we have to move from diesel underground to all electric. There are a number of companies that are already starting to supply different types of scooptrams and a variet

Natural Resources committee  How are you going to make sure you have first nations people among the students you have?

Natural Resources committee  It's how you're going to use the Canada first excellence research fund to further exploration in Canada. How are you going to use that?

Natural Resources committee  Thanks for picking that out. It's very sharp. Nuclear energy costs five times less than diesel. Did you know that? Diesel creates greenhouse gases; nuclear doesn't. Last night I was talking with Bruce Power about a research project on small modular nuclear batteries, so to spea

Natural Resources committee  First of all, it has to be on many levels. There has to be revenue sharing with the first nations community both federally and provincially. I know that we're looking at it through the Mining Association of Canada and also the Ontario Mining Association has recommendations to the

Natural Resources committee  We have about 3,000 manufacturers, suppliers; this is SAMSSA and CAMESE. They could be doubling, tripling their exports. Some of the stuff takes time to develop. They don't have the resources individually, and if there were some money, some bank, some source of funding to commerc

Natural Resources committee  We can learn from other countries, absolutely, but maybe they can learn from us as well. There are some interesting things that I learned at the World Mining Congress, which just happened last week in Rio. With the UN sustainable development goals and all the discussions happeni

Natural Resources committee  Good day, bonjour, Mr. Chair and honourable members. Thank you for the opportunity to speak on the urgent matters confronting the mining industry in Canada. There are going to be three areas, which I will develop in my presentation, that I would like you to consider. The first on