“The Critical Minerals Strategy is our government’s blueprint to connect industries, resources and workers… as we build up home-grown supply chains,” Ontario Premier Doug Ford said in a press release. “Doing so has never been more important as we secure game-changing investments in our auto sector to build the electric vehicles and batteries of the future.”
Ontario has identified 33 critical minerals, including nickel, cobalt, lithium, and rare earth elements. It produced about C$3.5 billion worth of critical minerals in 2020 with a mining sector that employs about 75,000 people.
The strategy will focus on supporting critical minerals exploration, enhancing geoscience information, improving the regulatory framework, investing in research, building economic development opportunities with Indigenous partners and growing labour supply for the mining sector, the province said in a press release.
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