Good find.....I especially like this part....some good hints at real progress.
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On the Ring of Fire region, Ford and Rickford are equally anxious to see benefits begin to flow to the area’s First Nations communities. Ford turned heads during the 2018 election campaign when he famously said he would jump on a bulldozer himself to help get the massive minerals deposits into production.
“I can’t wait. And I’m sure as we’re talking, I’m going to get on that darn bulldozer and I’m going up there, because I always like saying - promises made, promises kept. Greg is working with a number of First Nations communities. We have a majority of them onside, and there’s a couple of players that we’re still working with and we’ve got to start off with the infrastructure. We have to make sure that we have the access to get up to the Ring of Fire - that’s critical getting up and bringing product back. I think we’re getting closer as every day passes.”
Rickford and Ford are in lockstep on the massive Ring of Fire potential. “The premier was using a metaphor to encourage us all and inspire us all to move forward on this. Nobody can deny that this hasn’t been a long, torturous road where virtually nothing has gotten done, and that’s changing now because of our approach. And so we have hit some critical milestones and there’s a couple more on the horizon.”
“Just this past week, we had an opportunity to speak with Hatch, a major infrastructure company, and the two lead proponents, Webequie First Nation and Marten Falls First Nations chiefs around the plans for building the road. If that’s not a milestone, I don’t know what is, frankly, and these will be low touches to the taxpayer. There’ll be an expectation that the federal government finally puts their money where their mouth is.”
“And again, decidedly, under the Premier’s leadership, we’ve said, look, mining companies build mines, what we build is relationships to facilitate and move red tape out of the way so that this work can get done. And that’s effectively what is happening. Those things are happening now, the market is responding, and I don’t think we’ve ever been in a better position.”
