Federal Conservative leader makes stop in Sudbury with promises about 'unlocking' Ring of Fire

CBC News

· Posted: Mar 19, 2025 9:18 AM EDT | Last Updated: 5 minutes ago

The person of the national Conservative enactment is successful Sudbury contiguous making promises, if elected, to 'unlock' entree to captious minerals successful the Ring of Fire and physique a caller roadworthy into the distant mining campy successful northwestern Ontario. 

In a quality release, Poilievre said his enactment would "greenlight" all national permits for the Ring of Fire wrong six months to velocity the extraction of chromite, cobalt, nickel, copper and platinum, describing this as essential for the Canadian system successful the look of US commercialized tariffs.

The Ring of Fire portion is said to beryllium affluent successful captious minerals and located astir 500 kilometres northeast of Thunder Bay, but improvement has been dilatory implicit the past 15 years.  

In addition to speeding up national permits, Poilievre said helium would walk $1 cardinal implicit 3 years to physique a roadworthy linking the mineral deposits and adjacent First Nations to the Ontario road network, portion "allowing companies investing successful the Ring of Fire to wage a stock of their national firm taxes to section First Nations."

He criticized the national Liberal government for failing to enactment connected processing the region.

"This gatekeeping and reddish portion was devastating for Canada earlier Donald Trump threatened tariffs connected our economy. Now, it is an enactment of economical suicide," said Poilievre.

"By partnering with First Nations to make our world-class resources, we volition bring location almighty paycheques for each Canadians."

More to come....