This week, Vancouver hosted CIM CONNECT 2024, the annual meeting of the Canadian mining industry, where Anik Pouliot proudly represented Transfert Environnement et Société.
The ICM is always a forum of interest for discussions concerning the reconciliation efforts of mining companies with First Peoples.
This year again, we highlighted the importance of investing as early as possible in the development of relationships of trust, then collaboration and partnership with host communities.
It was a question of developing a culture of reconciliation, transparency, the search for opportunities, to create benefits for communities, but also because late corrections in the development of projects are costly.
Several also recalled that in a constantly evolving context, with a multiplication of technological solutions and an increasing complexity of projects, communication remains essential. Internal and external stakeholders need to hear success stories and case studies.
Special mentions to Eldorado Gold Québec, recipient of the Prize of Excellence in Community Engagement as part of the Towards Sustainable Mining Development (VDMD) initiative, for its planning of the social closure of the Lamaque mine, and to 48 Nord International for having again this year brilliantly coordinated the delegation of Quebec businesses alongside Investissement Québec.