Natural Resources committee  I'd like to respond to this issue, as well. The fact is that you have to take a less myopic approach to this. This is not a Canadian issue. Canadian consulting companies and Canadian mining companies have been negotiating with local and indigenous populations in South America, A

Natural Resources committee  Sure.

Natural Resources committee  I said the largest of them all is in Ontario, split between the north and the south. There is another cluster in Saskatchewan, because of the specialized minerals, such as potash and uranium. In Alberta, between Edmonton and Calgary, there is the oil sands cluster that supports t

Natural Resources committee  Throughout my career in Sudbury and elsewhere, I've been involved in research projects, continuously in Sudbury. The fact is that we have 30 years of research in the Sudbury basin on our deep mines, and very little of that has actually moved off into industry to be commercialized

Natural Resources committee  Well, no, Australia has not actually done a better job. Australia has done a far better job of pouring large amounts of money into research. They're only just now beginning to recognize they actually don't, for all that money that went into research, have any more innovation. In

Natural Resources committee  We already have very good relationships with EDC. We know the structures that EDC can put in place for us once we have products. The fact is that, to a large degree, our service and supply sector has been relatively complacent because more than 80% of their revenue comes from loc

Natural Resources committee  Sure, we can do that.

Natural Resources committee  Yes. Thank you very much. We're very pleased to be here and have the opportunity to present to the committee. My name is Douglas Morrison. I'm the president and CEO of the Centre for Excellence in Mining Innovation, called CEMI, based in Sudbury, Ontario. My colleague here is B