Greatest opportunity, Canada's responsibility

Published June 2, 2010

Any profile of Canada's international mining and energy footprint inevitably includes big numbers that have only gotten bigger over the years.

Not only is Canada home to 60 per cent of the world's natural resource extraction companies, but the Mining Association of Canada says Canadian investments in the mining sector abroad have skyrocketed from $30 billion in 2002 to $110 billion in 2008. This included...