Canada should be a world leader in breaking China’s hold on rare earth element mining

This is one area where the national security and broader national interests of Canada, and indeed all of North America, create a moral imperative to act.

Rare earth elements—also called critical minerals—are a group of 17 metals used in products such as clean energy technologies, electronic goods, and military hardware. Photograph courtesy of Pixabay

Opinion

BY JOSEPH QUESNEL

December 11, 2019

Three decades ago, China embarked on an ambitious plan to become a global leader in the production and processing of rare earth elements (REE). As former Chinese president Deng Xiaoping famously quipped in 1992: “There is oil in the Middle East; there is rare earth in China.” Today, China’s o...

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