Fisheries committee  Yes, thank you. Within the exploration and prospecting community, the mitigation used for any potential impact to fish or fish habitat, whether that be commercial, aboriginal, recreational, or otherwise, has remained very much the same. There isn't a variation. We still use the

Fisheries committee  Essentially a self-assessment is determining what activities are planned on site, utilizing general mitigation, which can come off the DFO website or off more standard mitigation that is used for similar projects, then looking at mitigation specific to your location, your activit

Fisheries committee  That's correct. It's available, should they ask for it, much in line with how the standard operational procedure statements were utilized previously.

Fisheries committee  For my specific projects, no, but within the exploration industry, yes, they have.

Fisheries committee  Yes, with respect to the previously utilized operational guidelines, those helped resource development, primarily exploration and prospecting, ensure that they could utilize operational guidelines for minor works within the requirements. Those commonly include things like drillin

Fisheries committee  Thank you for that question. There was a change in the process between 2012 and currently. The fact is that previously there were letters of advice utilized. That was a process through Department of Fisheries and Oceans. Currently, we use our own self-assessment and a request f

Fisheries committee  Got it. Following this work, it was decided that Sabina would advance the remediation work on Bernard Harbour and it did so in 2016. This work was completed with 80% Inuit employment, heavily employed through the Kugluktuk Hunters and Trappers organization and we're finalizing a

Fisheries committee  Thank you, Lesley. My name is Matthew Pickard. I'm the vice-president of environment and sustainability with Sabina Gold and Silver Corporation, which is a junior mining company based in Vancouver. Over the past seven years we've been focused on the development of the Back Ri