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🇨🇦 Ford talks tough, Sudbury knows better

The funniest part is not Doug Ford threatening to cut off critical minerals to the U.S. It is that people in Sudbury barely blinked, because grown-ups in the mining business know Canada is in no position to play resource superpower after years of regulatory self-sabotage, federal green sermonizing, and provincial chest-thumping. As reported, the city at the centre of Ontario mining is unshaken by the big threat. Of course it is. Real producers understand the difference between campaign theatre and state capacity.

This is the Trudeau-Ford model in a nutshell: boast about critical minerals while Ottawa strangles projects with permits, ideology, and endless consultation rituals, then pretend Canada holds all the cards. We dig the stuff, export the leverage, and call that strategy. Meanwhile the Americans secure supply chains, China dominates processing, and our ruling class congratulates itself for virtue signalling about net zero. A sovereign country would build, refine, and negotiate from strength. Canada gets press releases and bluff.

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The Globe and Mail Sudbury, Ontario’s mining capital, unshaken by Ford’s threat to cut off U.S. critical minerals supply Strategic importance of nickel to U.S. manufacturing and city’s economic diversification seen as buffers against trade-war fallout
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