From Canada's budget release:
Pg 83:
Budget 2023 proposes a refundable tax credit equal to 30 per centof the cost of investments in new machinery and equipment used to manufacture or process key clean technologies, extract, process, orrecycle key critical minerals, including: *cathodes & batteries.
Pg 85:
"Canada Growth Fund is a $15 billion arm’s length public investment vehicle that will help attract private capital to build Canada’s clean economy..."
Also this part:
"Established as a federal Crown corporation, PSP Investments is one ofCanada’s largest pension investment managers with more than $225 billion inassets under management. It operates at arm’s length from the government.The Canada Growth Fund assets managed by PSP Investments will be separate from and managed independently of the pension assets of PSP Investments."
Pg 90:
The Strategic Innovation Fund will also direct up to $1.5 billion of its existing resources towards projects in sectors, including clean technologies, critical minerals, and industrial transformation.
The SIF $1.5b can be accessed within days from now, after the budget final vote. This is outstanding because the $15b CGF program, is not active until June.
Nano & Rio met with the pension group weeks ago.
Plenty of programs with funding to support Nano