Natural Resources committee  Yes. It's been in place, as you might know, for many years. I think industry supports broadly having carbon mechanisms. They are working very hard themselves, as you know, to reduce their emissions—

Natural Resources committee  There's a moral and environmental and local economic case to be made for LNG. It's been made probably a hundred different ways in the last two years. Again, there's reducing emissions from the burning of coal, which is very clear; increasing the economy in B.C., western Canada an

Natural Resources committee  It's far more clean than coal. I think everyone on this committee would know that. The important thing also is that it emits almost no black carbon, whereas obviously coal does. From a pollution perspective and from a human health perspective, in Asia, where they are increasing e

Natural Resources committee  The one that's in place I have no problem with.

Natural Resources committee  Thank you for the question. I think oil and gas in Alberta is subject to carbon pricing through the Alberta TIER system. I don't hear a lot of complaints about that. I think it's an effective mechanism. I think it's all the other layers of pancaked regulation that are detrimenta

Natural Resources committee  It takes 17.9 years in Canada to build a mine. I wish it was 10 to 15 years.

Natural Resources committee  I'll try to be quick. The main challenges I hear are duplication, redundancy, long timelines and political risk. Until there are actually shovels in the ground, there could be a designation or there could be a veto. What the Business Council of Alberta said eloquently was that

Natural Resources committee  Good morning, Mr. Chair and committee members. Thank you for the opportunity to speak to you today. I'll focus my remarks on three areas: critical minerals, investment tax credits and nuclear energy. There is widespread consensus in the resource sector that we are not competiti

Natural Resources committee  Thank you very much for the question. Again, here is another natural resource that is getting a bit politicized in Canada. There are tremendous opportunities, including in the oil and gas industry, to do blue hydrogen. There are huge markets for blue hydrogen. There have been mu

Natural Resources committee  I would note and acknowledge that they invested just under $1 billion in the SMR demonstration project, the biggest ever in the Canada Infrastructure Bank. But what the U.S. Department of Energy is doing is looking at nuclear fuel and enriched nuclear fuel. Most of the small modu

Natural Resources committee  Thank you so much for the question. I could talk about nuclear all day. As you guys probably know, the Athabasca basin in northern Saskatchewan—I'm from Saskatchewan—has probably the richest reserves of uranium in the world, and we have done quite a good job of involving indigen

Natural Resources committee  That's a great question. There's so much more that we could be doing. We are the second-largest country in the world and we probably have the most.... We're only number eight in terms of mining value. Number one is China and number two is Russia, so it is incredibly important—for

Natural Resources committee  The correct lesson, in my view, is that a pipeline that could have been built for $7 billion 10 years ago now takes well over $20 billion due to our political, legal and regulatory systems. This is a huge problem that needs to be addressed. We seem to be discussing only TMX becau

Natural Resources committee  Good morning, Mr. Chair and committee members. My expertise is resource geopolitics and indigenous engagement in Canadian resource development, and I'll focus my brief remarks on those issues. To briefly set the context, the COVID pandemic and the Russian invasion of Ukraine hav

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  That's a very good question. It depends on how you define sovereignty. On the question of the Northwest Passage, it's more of a maritime issue. On the question that is most pertinent, the extended continental shelf, that is the seabed. It's not an area that has been occupied or