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Ottawa is counting on copper to be a nation builder — and Canada has to play catch-up
« on: September 13, 2025, 08:43:05 pm »

Ottawa is counting on copper to be a nation builder — and Canada has to play catch-up

CBC
Jenna Benchetrit
Sep 13, 2025

Ottawa's list of fast-tracked "nation-building" projects includes the development of two copper mines — to source one of the world's most important natural resources as global demand soars and supply challenges persist.

Such projects "must strengthen Canada's autonomy, our resilience and our security. It must have clear benefits for Canadians," said Prime Minister Mark Carney during the Thursday announcement.

Enter copper, the world's third-most widely used metal and a conduit for all things electrical. The federal government is recommending regulatory approval for the McIlvenna Bay Foran Copper Mine Project in Saskatchewan, and an expansion of the Red Chris Mine in northwestern B.C.

The critical mineral is used to build electric vehicles and other green energy products. But demand is skyrocketing amid the global boom of data centres, which house the hardware that powers artificial intelligence.

Canada is "a major mining power, and copper is one of the most important natural resources of this century," said Vince Beiser, the Vancouver-based author of Power Metal: The Race for the Resources That Will Shape the Future.

"All of our digital gadgets need electricity. How does electricity travel? How does it get from the dam or the solar power farm to your home? It travels on copper," he said.

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https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/copper-nation-building-projects-ottawa-carney-1.7631248
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Re: Ottawa is counting on copper to be a nation builder — and Canada has to play catch-up
« Reply #1 on: September 13, 2025, 09:51:44 pm »
A green govt like Ottawa cannot realize full value in mining as it
1. Is fundamentally anti-development of resource (think California)

2. It enriches 'red' provinces which elites suffer greatly to do.
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Re: Ottawa is counting on copper to be a nation builder — and Canada has to play catch-up
« Reply #2 on: September 13, 2025, 10:37:16 pm »
HAHAHA! too little too late. Alberta's leaving and taking Saskatchewan, BC and the Yukon with it. You sonsabiches milked em for the last time.
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Re: Ottawa is counting on copper to be a nation builder — and Canada has to play catch-up
« Reply #3 on: September 13, 2025, 11:15:24 pm »
Ottawa can count on the Liberals to be a nation destroyer.
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Re: Ottawa is counting on copper to be a nation builder — and Canada has to play catch-up
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Quote from: roamer_1 on September 13, 2025, 10:37:16 pm
HAHAHA! too little too late. Alberta's leaving and taking Saskatchewan, BC and the Yukon with it. You sonsabiches milked em for the last time.
Manitoba may even join in. The damage is done.

Why should those provinces work their butts off to be treated like second class citizens by Ottawa?
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