Remember folks ..it's an election year with the PC Feds needing to put down the Libs in Ontario to fight off the Lib Feds. This after all is Rickford re-election territory. The first move was the E/W road study announced by Rickford, not by Gravelle. This is the second move IMO here's the real reason for the nr...

“The second thing we need, and this is more out of our control as the federal level, is you need the organization that controls the natural resource to have a working relationship with First Nations communities, so that they can have an understanding of economic success that works for both. Of course when I mention the organization that controls the natural resource, I am talking about the province.”