| | | For CCB to stoop to his level and go after him, is just that, stooping to his level. I think its a waste of time. let him spend his money disagreeing with Quebec law. Have him spend money disagreeing with what Appointed officials MUST DO to support Quebec Mining Law.
Quebec Mining Law is the governing document, not little innuendos or gleaned tidbit comments from appointed officials. The sooner he realizes that the quicker he will save some money, personally I hope he takes it to the Supreme Court because then Quebec handles their side of the mining law and what is allowed and what is not.
If you want a park or a rec area or a designated piece of land to be something other than a possible mine it requires you to take individual steps to prevent it. Its not the other way around. Sub surface rights are not deemed to be secondary to ANY other function in provinces in Canada unless those functions have been established and the process exercised. Thats an important differentiator. So one should assume every square inch of Canada is a Mine, and make sure you do everything necessary to produce a park or rec area.That means hypothetical miners under mining law own sub-surface rights even if a claim is not filed. (thats how it should be looked at) The assumption that land is a park or rec area without understanding mining rights is done so at your peril. To prevent a mine, you must do the same thing as a miner does, file a claim, register it, and rezone. Once done you are protected, just like the miner would have been if he had done it.
So one can postulate that the entire area between Grenville to Ottawa be a park. You can pass it in Council , Municipal and County level but until you take "the Claim, and rezone the land" its fair game for EVERY MINER UNDER THE SUN. So you can sit their and ponder a park or ponder a rec area, but until you do more substantive things its only a "ponder". So Pondering a park or rec facility after a sub-surface claim has been filed is too late, pondering and not securing a sub-surface claim to back up your "ponder" is also too late.
So what should have happened in Grenville and what did happen are two different things. ALL CLAIMS for sub surface rights are retroactive to their application date. So if you apply in 2014 and the claims are approved in 2014, 2015, 2016 ,....... then the claim is subject to the law of 2014
Now Le Gris may disagree with the law in 2014, as I may disagree with a speeding ticket I got in 2014 because the same highway now has a speed limit of 20KM faster than it was in 2014 but I can do nothing about it and neither can Le Gris.
The law is the law. I personally hope he spends a fortune finding that out, considering how he has distorted this situation too his liking. |
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