Canada’s critical mineral resources will play a key role in how Ottawa responds to escalating trade tensions with the United States, Energy Minister Tim Hodgson says.
Hodgson made the comments July 11, one day after U.S. President Donald Trump threatened to impose a blanket 35 percent tariff on Canadian imports. He made the comments during an event in Charlottetown announcing five new funding packages for Maritime energy projects totalling $26.57 million.
“Despite what the president may say, Canada has many important cards in these negotiations, and out of many of those cards, the most important ones are energy and natural resources. At the G7 it was abundantly clear Canada has the energy and minerals the world wants,” Hodgson said following the three-day Energy and Mines Ministers’ Conference (EMMC)….