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Canada wants G7 talks on metals pricing to counter China’s sway
Canada wants its allies to explore a pricing floor for critical minerals to address what it views as market interference from China, the dominant supplier of metals key to the energy transition. Canada has been thinking about supporting investment through measures such as pricing floors to address alleged market manipulation, the country’s Natural Resources Minister Jonathan Wilkinson said Wednesday at an event in Washington. Such measures should factor in an accounting of environmental and labor standards associated with production, he said. “We in Canada and in the United States are not going to go into a ... (full story)