"It only makes sense that the Feds are indeed waiting for the "business plan" to be fully elucidated, before commiting funding. To do so otherwise would be political suicide."- Luker Wynne visited Harper, in Ottawa on dec 13,2013, cap in hand, asking for ROF infrastructure money. Harper said sure! Just "show me your (business ) plan and if approved:- (if sound; feasible; creates jobs; helps FN; long term returns; etc etc) we will provide fed $ support via already established funding financing mechanisms In other words: show me your plan. We have as yet any plan; but lotsa lib posturing and politicking. It has now taken almost a year for the dithering liberals to accomplish a six month+ old Deloitte appointment with as yet no report/ recommendations; a almost one year promise for the establishment of a "Devco" yet to exist. The ROF , as Cupcake exactly described, will happen shortly, not because of the dithering Ontario liberals, but because of Noront ; FN winter road support, and RCF/BAO bridge financing to guarantee the integrity of the existing FS timeline. Final EA (Ontario parliament) approval in Q1/15 will verify formal project financing of a project that will have already started. The new MOE minister Murray will be the driving EA catalyst and trigger the necessary winter road start work permits, with key FN community support. Action Jackson Wynne will attempt to take credit, and the sheep will believe her until she fails to balance the budget in two years and introduces Huge tax increases and will blame Feds, of course. Peter It only makes sense that the Feds are indeed waiting for the "business plan"