Losing Canada’s last big critical minerals champion: the stakes in the Anglo–Teck deal

At a time when the U.S. is increasingly focused on securing its own supply chains, approval of the merger may come to represent a serious misstep.
Mélanie Joly
Industry Minister Mélanie Joly’s new industrial strategy is fundamentally incompatible with allowing our largest critical minerals company to fall into foreign hands, writes Ed Fast.

The proposed “merger of equals” between Anglo American and Teck Resources has stirred robust debate across Canada’s mining and policy communities—and rightly so. If approved, Teck would cease to be a Canadian company. In the process, we would lose our last major crit...

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