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Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau says Canada is ready and willing to supply the United States with strategically important minerals used in consumer and industrial products as Washington steps up efforts to cut its dependence on China.
At a White House meeting in late June, Mr. Trudeau and U.S. President Donald Trump agreed to negotiate a joint strategy on mineral collaboration. The United States is also seeking alliances with Australia, Japan and the European Union, which also fear relying too much on China for these minerals.
“I brought up this at the top of my conversation in my last meeting with Donald Trump, where I highlighted that Canada has many of the rare-earth minerals that are so necessary for modern technologies,” Mr. Trudeau told a news conference on Monday in Toronto. The rare earths are 17 minerals used in high-tech and military products such as smartphones, electric cars and fifth-generation fighter jets.
He was commenting on a report in The Globe and Mail on Monday that Canadian and U.S. officials are drawing up an action plan to reduce both countries’ reliance on China for such minerals.
“Many of them come from China – it is in our interest to ensure that we have reliable supplies of these important minerals for technologies, and it’s a conversation that our government is leading on,” Mr. Trudeau said.
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