Calibre Mining chief financial officer Daniella Dimitrov. (Photo: MINING.COM.)
As Canada’s premiers tout a new national framework to speed up approvals for major resource and infrastructure projects, Calibre Mining chief financial officer Daniella Dimitrov says the mining sector remains unconvinced.
Speaking to MINING.COM at THE Mining Investment Event in Quebec City, Dimitrov welcomed federal and provincial commitments to shorten permitting timelines, but said governments need to move from words to action.
For Dimitrov, Canada’s fragmented approach and lack of detail are still major obstacles.
“I feel sometimes we’ve got 13 countries, not one,” she said. “We need to lay out performance metrics and that we can hold governments accountable, and we need execution.”
At a recent summit in Saskatoon, Prime Minister Mark Carney and all 13 premiers agreed to identify projects of “national…
