It will happen!! I'm not concerned and believe MAT will be able to come to terms with First Nation.
What is clear is that Canada and Quebec will never cave into allowing First Nation to stop what proves to be a huge windfall of the HREE sector across Canada going into the next 50 years. Canada will be a dominate player regardless.
Canada has plenty of leverage as well as MAT and other companies, but to think that First Nation can halt this huge potential is wishful thinking on their part.
First of all, Canada's subsidies into First Nation will be the first test. Canada will use the public tax subsidies ( Or welfare programs ) funding various First Nation programs because of their indigenous status will play a major compromise to be sure.
They will force First Nation if all else fails, to look at ways they can begin to engineer their own programs without government subsidies. This will happen, and force First Nation to come to terms with their obsessive and self-righteous monopoly.
I understand their concern, but I do not understand their insistence to keep public companies from moving forward while all the while they are getting government subsidies that really aren't benefiting them as a whole.
Buying opportunity to be sure.
Have a good day
Varok