Amazing how "exceptional times" involve doing all the things certain demographics want to do in very unexceptional times. Namely reducing environmental regulations to speed fast-tracking resource extraction projects with government loans to dubious mining industry figures.
I love living in a country with no more ambition than to be a branch plant.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nunavik-rare-earth-mining-project-9.7138515

Canada backs rare earth mine in Nunavik with close ties to Trump White House | CBC News
Amid Prime Minister Mark Carney’s calls that the Canada-U.S. relationship is ruptured, Ottawa has committed $175-million to a mining project in northern Quebec whose major U.S. investor is closely linked to the Trump administration.