@hewer_of_code I cannot judge as to provincial autonomy in law. As to action, however… The wild assumption that provinces actually own the land under their feet is disproven by their charters, the Canadian Constitution, and history. Even discounting the Proclamation of 1763, everything is and was Crown Land, and that authority now resides in Ottawa according to the Parliament of the United Kingdom. But Ottawa, for various reasons, has rarely acted. Hopefully it will join the vertebrates.