Jonathan Wilkinson, Canada’s Minister of Energy & Natural Resources. Credit: Colin McClelland
Canada’s energy and natural resources minister said the Trump administration must realize it could soon face taxed critical mineral exports from its northern neighbour in response to tariffs that began on Tuesday.
The US depends on Canadian oil, nickel, zinc, uranium, potash and germanium – among other resources – to make steel, ships and planes, fuel power plants and grow food, Jonathan Wilkinson said at the Prospectors & Developers of Canada Association’s annual convention in Toronto.
“When President Trump says he doesn’t need something from Canada, that’s just not true,” Wilkinson told reporters Tuesday afternoon. “And so looking at putting on either our own export tariffs or looking at other measures that would include deciding we’re going to sell some of those products elsewhere,…
