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Politics & permitting Analysis
This is the federal leg of the approval, and it settles the federal test and nothing past it. The conditions bind the proponent, but the levels that would stop work are set later, in each follow-up program, and permits are still required.
Politics & permitting
The one-year standard is a stated goal in a speech, so how it would apply to a mine depends on legislation the speech did not describe. The 27 referred projects and the $500 billion figure are the government's own description.
Indigenous & communities
The release says Cat Lake's reserve lands sit inside Treaty 9 territory but that the nation asserts it never signed a treaty with the Crown, while Lac Seul signed Treaty 3. Lac Seul Chief Clifford Bull said conditions from the Anishinaabe-led assessment were built into the agreement, and the release does not set them out, so those conditions are what to watch.