Natural Resources committee  Even in terms of rationalizing, we have ASTM standards on how we calculate a whole bunch of other things. I'll be an engineer again, but why can we not have standards for the way in which these things are calculated? It would make Kathleen's life so much easier, and then we'd als

Natural Resources committee  Titanium I know well. I have been involved with them for the better part of 16 years or so, as they have been bringing their technology through. They're a pretty typical representation of a Canadian-built technology base. If early on they had been able to find more openly the wo

Natural Resources committee  As industry, we are contributing to the Canadian economy. Obviously, we would be happy to be able to contribute more. I think one of the things to realize when you look at funding for this is that it probably isn't new money that you need to find. My guess is that you have almost

Natural Resources committee  Personally, I don't work a lot in comparison to the U.S., or to Canada. But I do, in my job, evaluate countless technologies on an ongoing basis. Inevitably, when somebody wants to share something with you, they want you to sign an NDA. The very first thing I say is, no, tell me

Natural Resources committee  Yes, if the data was consolidated and understood, or if it was calculated in the same way. I think this difference between provincial and federal data is important. What's so nice about our industry is that every single measurement point in our plants and facilities is reported t

Natural Resources committee  It is.

Natural Resources committee  Even a small company, if it's operating, is going to have done a heat and material balance—sorry, I'm an engineer, too. You can't operate efficiently without generating data. It's how you share that data easily and how it can be received easily that actually makes the differenc

Natural Resources committee  As an industry, we already have a long history of collaborating. You can look at how, in the oil sands, for example, it's over 30 or 40 years of industry collaborating as we've gone on. You have really deep collaborative sharing, as in Canada's oil sands innovation, where there i

Natural Resources committee  Good morning. Thank you for inviting me to speak here today on behalf of the Clean Resource Innovation Network. I'm here as the chair of CRIN. I also am the vice-president, technology and innovation, at Canadian Natural Resources Limited, which was the fourth-largest R and D inv