Editorial: Quebec pushes forward with revived Plan Nord

More meat has been added to the bones of Quebec Premier Philippe Couillard’s revival of former Premier Jean Charest’s shelved Plan Nord to develop large infrastructure in Quebec’s resource rich Far North.

The Couillard government tabled its budget on March 26 for the fiscal year starting April 1, 2015, and it contains specific funds earmarked for Plan Nord as well as overall budgetary encouragement of mining and mineral exploration in Quebec.

Premier Couillard assumed office in April 2014, and made his mark in mining circles by reversing the decision of the previous Parti Québécois administration – which came to power in September 2012 – to scuttle Charest’s Plan Nord from 2011, which envisaged $80 billion in government and industry investments in northern Quebec resource development by 2036.

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