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The provinces may control natural resources, but Ottawa controls enough of the jurisdictional, legal, tax, environmental and regulatory levers that it can set the tone and get provincial buy-in for a cooperative national framework equal to the opportunity Canada faces.
Photograph by Jake Wright, The Hill Times
Make no mistake: Natural Resources Minister Joe Oliver. Canada is on the brink of massive development fuelled by our increasingly sought-after natural resources. It isn’t just the oil sands. Potash, natural gas, conventional and non-conventional oil, minerals and rare earths, and more in almost every province and territory all presage investments of tens of billions of dollars, year after year, for many years to come.
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Canada’s monumental economic challenge: our increasingly schizophrenic attitude to natural resource development
The provinces may control natural resources, but Ottawa controls enough of the jurisdictional, legal, tax, environmental and regulatory levers that it can set the tone and get provincial buy-in for a cooperative national framework equal to the opportunity Canada faces.
Photograph by Jake Wright, The Hill Times
Make no mistake: Natural Resources Minister Joe Oliver. Canada is on the brink of massive development fuelled by our increasingly sought-after natural resources. It isn’t just the oil sands. Potash, natural gas, conventional and non-conventional oil, minerals and rare earths, and more in almost every province and territory all presage investments of tens of billions of dollars, year after year, for many years to come.
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