RE:Went to second It's not really that Manitoba has fallen, it's other places around the world have increased incentives to try and attact mining and economic activity to their country, province, or state. They realize the supply of critical elements are paramount to battery manufactures to product the green electric vehicles, consumer electronics, and grid storage, etc of the future. Because the demand and growth will be expotential they really need to open access for miners to explore heavily to find new huge deposits to become mines to keep up.