Christopher Hernandez-Roy at the National Defence Committee

February 9th, 2026 / 12:05 p.m.

Deputy Director and Senior Fellow, Americas Program, Center for Strategic and International Studies

I mentioned earlier in my opening remarks that Canada already mines and processes the 12 critical minerals that NATO considers to be essential for defence. Just as a little carve-out here for a second, the USGS list of critical minerals I think is at 52.

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