RE:Is This The Reason For Today ??? Quite possibly yes. More so than the planned NASDAQ listing. (the timing of which is definitely not a coincidence)
Federal budget out Thursday - Just follow the (public) money... https://www.ctvnews.ca/business/canada-to-invest-2b-on-mineral-strategy-for-ev-battery-supply-chain-1.5847858 "Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's government,... will make the investment to ramp up the extraction of processing of critical minerals including nickel, lithium, cobalt and magnesium"
"There are some particular projects that we are looking at and working on at the present time," Natural Resources Minister Jonathan Wilkinson said in a recent telephone interview with Reuters.
All the potential projects, "whether they're extraction or processing, need to be accelerated significantly, and that's what the critical mineral strategy will be about," he added.
https://www.ctvnews.ca/business/canada-to-invest-2b-on-mineral-strategy-for-ev-battery-supply-chain-1.5847858