The federal government is pushing ahead with its plan to eliminate regional land and water boards in the Northwest Territories despite aboriginal opposition.
People who have seen the plan have told CBC News that Ottawa intends to have most of the changes in place in time for devolution, which happens next April 1.
The changes, designed to speed up the permitting process for mining and oil and gas projects, were first suggested more than six years ago by the federal government, which said it wanted to fix the regulatory regime in Northern Canada.
"It's essential that we maximize the benefits of resource development while protecting the environment, and to do that we must have predictable, efficient and effective regulatory regimes across the north," Chuck Strahl, the Minister of Aboriginal Affairs and Northern Development said in May 2007.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/story/2013/09/05/north-review-boards.html?cmp=rss&utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter
No amount of spin can change the fact that this government is in the wallet of corporation and will destroy the Canada we know in the name of personal financial gain.
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