RE:Canadian critical minerals strategy We know how important this industry is, we know the history of this in this country, we know the great opportunity for generations to come, and we know the world is going to go into a cleantech economy. It is better to extract copper in the Yukon, where maximum benefits go to First Nations governments, local jobs are created, and there is a fair but stringent environmental regime in place. That is where that commodity should be coming from, versus somewhere where workers are not treated as well, or the environmental assessment might not be as strong. All of those things could happen in other jurisdictions. From our standpoint, we will continue to be very aggressive in how we tell our story and that seems to work. When you think about provinces and territories in the country, they have come all together. Things like the Invest in Canada strategy also helps. We have a team that has been pulled together across Northern Canada to tell this story.
I chaired a mining minister’s table last year with the federal minister and my sense is Canada will need to continue to tell its story in an effective way and share those opportunities. It is going to be really important for the Canadian Minerals and Metals Plan, which has been signed off by all jurisdictions. Work will have to be done there and it will be important to tell our own stories. We have a pretty good sense of how to do that.
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