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Under the Canadian constitution and its predecessor the BNA Act, "Mines" is a portfolio under the jurisdiction of the provinces; the creation of the federal ministry was controversial and seen at the provincial level as an attempt to appropriate powers; the differing roles of the federal mines portfolio s the provincial ones should be described, as well as the politics of the Laurier era which led to this portfolio's creation and the response etc.Skookum1 (talk) 17:06, 5 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]
On the same subject, the wording of the opening lede sentence is crucial - mining industry, as mining policy and administration are provincial in nature; this should be spelled out clearly, I don't have the BNA Act handy to cite it with...or an analysis of Laurier's 'creeping centralization" which involved the creation of ministries the feds had no business in....Skookum1 (talk) 03:49, 6 September 2009 (UTC).[reply]
