🇨🇦 20 per cent of global uranium, and Ottawa still acts poor

A $2.2 billion mine in Saskatchewan could supply up to 30 million pounds of uranium a year, roughly one-fifth of current global output, and the ruling class still lectures Canadians about scarcity, sacrifice and managed decline. NexGen’s Rook I project, 130 kilometres north of La Loche, just broke ground, with 459 full-time jobs promised and a 24-year lifespan, as reported. Funny how Canada is suddenly an energy superpower whenever global demand, AI power loads and foreign supply chains need feeding.

The good news is Saskatchewan still remembers what a real economy looks like. Scott Moe was right to show up, and Stephen Harper too. The bad news is the federal machine will happily license extraction, skim the wealth, bury it under regulation, and sell the public a net-zero sermon while foreign buyers circle strategic assets. Uranium is not just a commodity; it is leverage, sovereignty and industrial muscle. If Ottawa had a national instinct left, Canada would be building around this advantage instead of importing population, exporting value and calling it progress.

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