Otmane El Rhazi : Canada’s mining industry welcomes federal budget

Otmane El Rhazi from Mining Weekly | Ferrous Metals Home.

Canadian miners’ national association on Tuesday welcomed the Conservative government’s balanced federal budget 2015, saying it was pleased with government’s renewed funding for key areas such as environmental assessment, the Major Projects Management Office, Aboriginal education and training, and geoscience. Finance Minister Joe Oliver on Tuesday tabled a national budget in Ottawa that had managed to keep the Conservatives’ 2011 election promise to return Canada to a surplus in 2015, with a federal budget that would see government spending C$1.4-billion less than it earned.