Prime Minister Stephen Harper's trip to China comes amid a renewed focus on Canada's natural resource exports, including oil and gas, forest products, minerals and agricultural products.

Saskatchewan Premier Brad Wall says Viterra Inc. does not fit the province's definition of a strategic resource, but that the fiscal and economic impacts of a potential takeover of the grain handler must be analyzed.

First Nations people are more than just stakeholders in resource development projects, and have real rights through their treaties, National Chief Shawn Atleo says.