Ann: Step up of engagement following Quebec regulatory decision, page-115

That may well be true but let's be honest here, It's not the locals that decide and while they are vocal they're very much a minority,
It seems that it was impossible for the Gov. to approve the mine without a BAPE when the company stated in their submission that they were exceeding the tonnage required to bypass the BAPE.

The Government may well support the mine if all the boxes are ticked, we don't know. The resource is there, the opportunity for local employment, royalties and taxes are there and must at least must be tempting to the Gov. We could find that the crying foul by a small bunch of extremists, despite all the experts contradicting their concerns, just may fail to sway the Gov.

I'm hoping this will be the case