The stated goals of…

Comment

The stated goals of protecting “the strategic national mineral supply chain” go beyond provincial authority. Anything of strategic national importance should be the domain of the federal government. It is a reasonable concern, but the legislation should further acknowledge the role of the federal government and provide a mechanism to automatically retire provisions that are made redundant, or conflict with, federal legislation. Otherwise it creates a high risk of bureaucratic duplication and may inadvertently increase the administrative burden that it seeks to reduce.