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Sudbury and Canada’s supply of critical minerals could be our trump card in trade war with the Americans, Sudbury Mayor Paul Lefebvre says
Sir Winston Churchill purportedly once quipped that one never wants to see “a good crisis go to waste.” Fortunately then for Ontario and Canada, we’ve got a whopper. Under President Trump, the United States is upending decades of partnership with Canada and many other allied nations.
American support for Ukraine is now apparently subject to the fledgling democracy providing $500 billion worth of rare earth as a “back payment” for U.S. military support.
Taiwan, the southeast Asian democracy that lives under constant threat of Chinese invasion, is being threatened with potentially 25 per cent, 50 per cent, or 100 per cent tariffs on its world-class semiconductors while the U.S. angles for more investment in domestic production. And Canada, for our part, is being taunted about becoming the 51st American state while also being expected to radically boost defence and security expenditures to earn our portion of the U.S. security umbrella.
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