Natural Resources committee  Yes, David Harquail generously provided $10 million to the department of earth sciences, which is now the Harquail school of earth sciences, and metal earth. He provided the dollars before he knew that we were going to be successful with metal earth. He saw the need to support mi

Natural Resources committee  I would echo everything Vic has said. We have the Vale Living With Lakes Centre, which is an environmental group that is incredibly involved with first nations peoples, especially from the water quality perspective. They're working in the Far North. We have great working relation

Natural Resources committee  That is a difficult question. Basically, the pool of first nations students who are available is very small. We're going to do our best to hire qualified first nations people, but the number of students at the undergraduate level in earth sciences across Canada is very low. We w

Natural Resources committee  I didn't get any of the translation, I'm sorry.

Natural Resources committee  We plan to look at four different activities. The first activity is large-scale controls on ore deposit formation. Then we're going to get into transect scales, much closer scales than deposit scales, and then data-analytic scales. The key premise behind metal earth is understand

Natural Resources committee  Yes, it would be.

Natural Resources committee  I would like to build on what Vic has said. You've really asked a very difficult question and there's no single solution. Let's start at the very beginning. I think the very first starting point, as Vic said, is that indigenous people have to have co-ownership in the resources. W

Natural Resources committee  Yes.

Natural Resources committee  Metal earth is a start. Even though it's $104 million, it's still a start. We have a long way to go. The metal earth initiative seeks to understand how metals were concentrated during our planet's evolution. That's the scientific goal. The applied goal is to understand the proce

Natural Resources committee  Good morning, bonjour. Mr. Chair, honourable members, thank you for this opportunity to speak on the challenges facing the mining industry in Canada. I will focus on exploration, the process of discovering the new resources required to build Canada's new mines, and on the resear