Many of our readers will be interested in a post by our colleagues on our mining law blog which provides an overview of Quebec's proposal on the regulation of mining, oil and gas companies with respect to payments in the course of exploration and development activities under Bill 55 An Act respecting transparency measures in the mining, oil and gas industries.  The post also includes an analysis in light of the Federal government's  Extractive Sector Transparency Act which we've previously written about.

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