Canada, a country that considers itself a global leader in mining and its associated knowledge economy, has increasingly lamented that where it once led, it now follows. Yet Canada has the opportunity to lead once more, to meet a challenge that might otherwise be economically and materially existential.

On April 4, a few days after Donald Trump’s ‘Liberation Day’ tariffs, China pulled the lever on its greatest weapon of economic coercion: a virtual strangulation of the global supply of critical minerals, rare earth elements, and the small magnets made from them.

The Western world — even President Trump — realizes the rather dangerous predicament it now finds itself in. We have become highly reliant on a strategic competitor — perhaps adversary — to keep our own defence and other supply c

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