Quebec Premier Warns Ottawa Against Unilateral Action to Protect Province’s Caribou

Quebec Premier Warns Ottawa Against Unilateral Action to Protect Province’s Caribou
A caribou moves through the Algar region of northeastern Alberta in September 2017 in a handout photo. The Canadian Press/HO-University of British Columbia-Cole Burton
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Ottawa is threatening to act unilaterally to protect caribou in Quebec, a move that Premier François Legault said Tuesday would be interference in an area of provincial jurisdiction.

In an April 8 letter, federal Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault gave the Quebec government until April 20 to provide him with information about its plan to protect the at-risk woodland caribou and the animals’ habitat.