THE LATEST | CANADACTV: “Let me give you a little bit of a history lesson,” Hodgson told CTV Question Period host Vassy Kapelos, when asked several times why his government is handing over any portion of its strategic assets to the White House while repeatedly stating it’s trying to reduce dependence on the United States. “For the last many years, people have been talking about the challenges of critical mineral supply chains.”
“It was our prime minister who was the head of the G7 in Kananaskis in Alberta, who said Canada will take the lead,” he added. “Canada proposed a critical minerals production alliance. It was a Canadian initiative.”
“We got the agreement of the other G7 countries,” he continued. “We suggested the other countries appoint critical mineral envoys, which they all did in response to our request. And since the summer, we, Canada, have been taking the lead with our critical mineral envoys, working with the critical mineral envoys of nine other countries, including every single G7 country, to turn that talk into real action…