Reindustrializing Canada: where the real critical mineral opportunity lies

A long-term reindustrialization strategy will provide clarity of focus, and allow Canada to leverage our well-developed mining and manufacturing sectors.
We must not squander this multi-generational opportunity by treating critical minerals as just another commodity boom, writes Marilyn Spink.

Over the past 50 years, while the West was absorbed by the promise of digital technologies and the soft-tech revolution, we slowly—and perhaps blindly—offshored our industrial base. In Canada, this has meant the erosion of manufacturing capacity, the hollowing out of val...

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