Interestingly, both Quebec and Ontario are proposing significant
changes to their respective mining legislation.
Ontario
On May 1, 2012 the public comment period closed on six (6)
regulatory proposals under the Ontario Mining Act that
were posted on the Environmental Registry (EBR) in March of this
year by the Ministry of Northern Development and Mines (MNDM).
Feedback received is now under review. The proposals were for
amendments to certain existing regulations and introduction of new
regulations to implement substantive changes made to the Mining
Act in 2009. The EBR postings were simply concept-level
descriptions of what the regulations would address although the
regulatory text itself was not provided. Until such time as
specific draft regulations and associated policies and standards
documents are released to the public, industry and First Nations,
it is difficult to predict whether the concepts will be codified
into law substantially as described. The
