The Grits have mired the development of vast wealth in a bureaucratic nightmare. The Tories pledge to change that
A video posted by Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre on Wednesday highlights one of Canada’s enduring problems: our chronic inability to get anything done and, by extension, our propensity to handicap our own economic prosperity.
In the video, and at a pre-campaign stop in Sudbury, Ont., Poilievre highlighted a story that should have sparked a modern-day gold rush. In 2007, prospectors found vast deposits of critical minerals — including chromite, which is used to produce stainless steel, cobalt, nickel, copper and platinum — in a remote part of northern Ontario, about 500 kilometres north of Thunder Bay, that came to be known as the “Ring of Fire.”
Development of the area was initially supported by private industry, the federal Conservative government and even Ontario’s Liberal government. Dozens of companies began prospecting, tens of thousands of claims were made, billions of dollars’ worth of private investment was pledged, deals were struck with local Indigenous communities and private companies began exploring the possibility of building railways into the area.
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