Canada’s mining and critical minerals goals hinge on the North

The future of Canada’s mining industry lies increasingly in remote and northern regions, but the infrastructure deficit in these parts of the country brings significant challenges.

Natural Resources Minister Jonathan Wilkinson, left, and Northern Affairs Minister Dan Vandal, right. Better policy cohesion is required in the critical minerals, climate, Indigenous reconciliation, and clean technology spaces to ensure the prosperity that mining has brought to Canada’s North, writes Photinie Koutsavlis. The Hill Times photographs by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY PHOTINIE KOUTSAVLIS

February 8, 2023

For Canada to achieve its climate goals, massive quantities of minerals and metals will be required to produce the clean technologies essential to a greener future. Canada’s North, where deposits of many of the critical minerals integral to the energy transition can be fou...

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