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Energy and Natural Resources
Énergie et Ressources naturelles
Federal responsibility for energy, mining, forests, and major project science. Provinces own most of the resources. Ottawa holds the trade, impact-assessment, and some regulatory levers.
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Energy
Pipelines, power, and new production.
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Common misconceptions
The energy minister does not own the oil
Commonly assumed: Federal energy announcements are often read as if Ottawa owns and operates provincial resources.
In fact: Provinces own most natural resources under the Constitution. The federal energy and natural-resources minister holds the federal levers: some regulation, impact assessment at the federal level, science, and the trade consequences. Those are not the same as provincial ownership.
A client who lobbies only the federal minister on a purely provincial resource decision is in the wrong capital.
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