Natural Resources Canada (NRCan)2019-09-252019-09-252011-06-281998-04http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12424/179666"At the July 1997 Mines Ministers’ Conference (MMC), in response to concerns about the need for further progress on regulatory reform, mines ministers charged the Intergovernmental Working Group on the Mineral Industry (IGWG) with preparing a government/industry report that reviews federal-provincial-territorial regulations affecting mining and proposes appropriate recommendations for their consideration at the 1998 MMC.An IGWG/Industry Task Force was created to coordinate the review process and the preparation of the report for mines ministers. According to the guidelines prepared by the Task Force, each jurisdiction designs, implements and reports on its own review process. Individual reports will be synthesized in an overview report for submission to mines ministers at their next MMC in July 1998. Reports received by April 3, 1998, were used to prepare a first compilation for discussion at a multi-stakeholder National Workshop on Environmental Regulations Affecting the Mining Sector that was held in Toronto on April 8 and 9, 1998. The purpose of the national workshop was to discuss the federal acts and regulations under review and their interactions with relevant provincial and territorial regulations. Reports submitted by Newfoundland, New Brunswick, Ontario, Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Alberta, British Columbia, the Yukon and the federal government were used for this first compilation. The report submitted by Quebec was not used to prepare this synthesis because it did not cover the federal-provincial interaction. Nova Scotia and the Northwest Territories were unable to submit a report in advance of the national workshop, and Prince Edward Island did not submit a report because of the lack of mining activities in that province. This report has been prepared to document the results of the national workshop, which was attended by representatives from provincial or territorial governments (9), industry (8), federal departments or agencies (7), environmental organizations (3), Aboriginal groups (2), labour (1), and legal practitioners (1). A list of participants is provided in Appendix 1."engWith permission of the license/copyright holdernatural resourcesenvironmental protectionFirst NationscommunityEconomic ethicsEnvironmental ethicsResources ethicsConference proceedings