By Jon Thompson, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter, Ricochet The federal government has not responded to requests for comment since Ontario Premier Doug Ford called for Canada to abandon its environmental assessment in the proposed Ring of Fire mining development. At an infrastructure funding announcement for Webequie First Nation last week , Ontario Premier Doug Ford publicly asked Prime Minister Mark Carney to disband the regional environmental assessment process. Ford argued Canada’s process is merely duplicating existing provincial and First Nationsefforts.“We have to move, and move quick. Let’s get the federal government out of the way. The prime minister assured me that it’s going to be, ‘one project, one process,’” Ford said, the same day his government announced its own process, which bears that name. “I trust the prime minister. When…
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