Harper’s Environmental Assessment Act overhaul failed mining. Let’s fix it

The imposition of layers of process on only the mining industry does not protect Canada's environment, further reconciliation with indigenous Canadians or build a strong economy.

If the mining sector could turn back the clock to 2011, before Stephen Harper's Conservative government changed the Canadian Environmental Assessment Act, it would—in a heartbeat, writes Pierre Gratton.The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY PIERRE GRATTON

September 21, 2016

The headline may surprise you. After all, didn’t the mining industry benefit from the “streamlining” measures of the Harper government in 2012? The answer is no. If mining could turn back the clock to 2011, we would—in a heartbeat. We have a strong interest in the new Trudeau government’s...

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