Saskatchewan’s finance minister is expressing a mixed response to the federal government’s first five projects under consideration for fast-track approval through a new major projects office.

Prime Minister Mark Carney last week announced the five projects — including Foran Mining Corp.’s McIlvenna Bay copper and zinc mine in Saskatchewan — under consideration for fast-track approval. Each of them are viable projects “in the national interest,” Carney said, adding that Ottawa’s new major projects office intends to “move quickly” so that the projects can move forward.

“While we are pleased to see some projects selected, including the Foran Copper Mine in Saskatchewan, I think most Canadians were expecting a more ambitious list of projects given the prime minister’s promise to build ‘at a

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