RE:Costly delaysThe most interesting and important part of this article: By combining Canada's auto assembly, parts business, battery making and mining proficiency with the expansion of the country's existing battery materials expertise, the report says Canada is ideally placed to become a global leader, adding an estimated $48 billion a year to the economy and creating hundreds of thousands of jobs across the country.
The plan would require billions of dollars in federal and provincial seed money, but most importantly, it would require a thought-out industrial strategy of the type developed by other industrial powers like Germany, linking each part of the integrated sector and planning it with industrial players.