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| EST. READ TIME 1 MIN.Annual Survey of Mining Companies: 2000-2001
Since 1997, The Fraser Institute has been surveying mining companies each year to assess how mineral endowments and public policy factors such as taxation and regulation affect exploration investment. Survey results represent the opinions of exploration managers in mining companies operating around the world. As the popularity of the survey has grown, we have expanded it to include more jurisdictions. We now ask companies to give us their opinions about the investment attractiveness of 45 jurisdictions including the Canadian provinces and territories (except Prince Edward Island), selected US states, Argentina, Australia, Bolivia, Brazil, Columbia, Chile, China, Ecuador, Ghana, Indonesia, Kazakhstan, Mexico, Papua New Guinea, Peru, Philippines, Russia, South Africa, Venezuela, and Zimbabwe. We look forward to further expanding the survey component of this report to include other jurisdictions of interest to respondents in years to come.
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Liv Fredricksen
Liv Fredricksen is a former researcher at The Fraser Institute in the Centre for Risk, Regulation, and Environment and theCentre for Trade and Globalization Studies. While at the Institute, Ms. Fredricksen co-ordinated several editions of the Environmental Indicators. With Laura Jones, she adapted Facts, Not Fear by Michael Sanera and Jane Shaw for Canadian readers. She also produced the Survey of Student Perceptions about the Environment and wrote several articles for Fraser Forum and the Canadian Student Review . Ms. Fredricksen received her BA in English from the University of British Columbia in 1995.… Read more -
Laura Jones
Executive Vice-President, Canadian Federation of Independent BusinessLaura Jones is Chief Strategic Officer and Executive Vice-President of the Canadian Federation of Independent Business (CFIB), a non-profit associationthat advocates for 110,000 independent businesses across Canada. She is responsible for CFIB’s legislative, communications, research, and marketing functions.Since joining CFIB in 2003, Ms. Jones has spearheaded several high-profile campaigns on behalf of small businesses, including creating CFIB’s annual Red Tape Awareness WeekTM and Small Business Every Day Campaign. She has authored a number studies on regulation, including papers for the Organisation of Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), the Mercatus Centre, and CFIB.Ms. Jones has been providing advice to Canadian governments on effective regulatory reform for more than a decade served on several federal and provincial regulatory committees. Currently, she serves as Chair of the federal External Advisory Committee on Regulatory Competitiveness. She is currently on the board of the Macdonald-Laurier Institute and CFIB.Ms. Jones received her B.A. in Economics from Mount Holyoke College in Massachusetts, and her M.A. in Economics from Simon Fraser University. She and her husband live in Vancouver with their three spirited children.… Read more