jmcomic������������

VANCOUVER – British Columbia has been leading the co-development of a western and northern Canadian critical-minerals strategy that will expand development and processing throughout the region, working in partnership with Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, the Yukon, Northwest Territories and Nunavut.

According to a release, Stronger Together: a Critical Minerals Strategy for Western and Northern Canada, provides a co-ordinated framework that positions the region as a key player in responding to evolving global economic and geo-political conditions.

“Provinces and territories, including Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, Yukon, Northwest Territories, Nunavut, and British Columbia, are actively collaborating on the implementation of the strategy,” states the release. “Continued partnership across governments, Indigenous communities and industry will be essential to unlocking the region’s full value-chain potential from exploration and extraction through to processing and manufacturing.”

The strategy is organized around three pillars:

• Investment attraction and regulatory certainty: Positioning Western and Northern Canada as a globally competitive, investment-ready critical-minerals region.
• Nation-building infrastructure corridors and hubs: Building the infrastructure backbone to unlock development at scale.
• Regional strengths and development opportunities: Advancing globally significant projects and a competitive value chain.

The strategy is expected to drive investment across exploration, mining and processing along with strengthening regional supply chains and build new value-chain potential, including mineral processing capacity closer to resource development areas.