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Amanda Wilson

Amanda Wilson

Director General of Policy and Economics, Lands and Minerals Sector at Natural Resources Canada; oversees Canada's Critical Minerals Strategy

Jun 17, 2026

3:30
So right from extraction all the way to what we hope is the next generation, which is recovery of minerals from waste and minerals recycling.
3:38
How do we not just enable the projects from the extraction side, but where can we build value add processing, uh, or advanced manufacturing? So there's a variety of, uh, tools that we will use, and we are using to do that.
3:55
So whether those are things like, uh, the, the recently announced Critical Mineral Sovereign Fund, uh, existing programming like the Critical Minerals Infrastructure Fund, which has been, uh, recently rebranded as the First and Last Mile Fund, or whether that's our work with allies, uh, in North America and around the world through, uh, initiatives like the G7 and the Critical Minerals Production Alliance that we launched last year, uh, whether that's through multilateral institutions or with, uh, other, uh, initiatives like the US-led FORGE.

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