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In Canada, the Minister of Indian Affairs took the view that the Yukon gold rush would be a short lived event. He argued that the Yukon Territory was "not the same as any other gold mining country in the world and the difference consists in the fact that it is good for nothing except mining which in all probability will be temporary.
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Existing laws offered little environmental protection.