Let’s make sure we get Canada’s critical minerals strategy right

Recent geopolitical developments have underscored the need to not treat critical minerals solely as an ingredient in cellphones and electric vehicle batteries.

Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland’s 2022 budget committed $1.5-billion in investment over seven years for infrastructure and supply chain projects to help realize critical mineral mining projects in Canada, writes Rohan Hazelton. The Hill Times photograph by Sam Garcia

Opinion

BY ROHAN HAZELTON

May 4, 2022

Given the context of this year’s federal budget—surging energy prices, post-COVID economic stabilization, and a war in Europe—the Government of Canada was understandably more focused than perhaps in any of the Trudeau government’s previous budgets. It was not Christmas morning with a bauble ...

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