This is John Batchel, speaking to colleague, Conrad Black, distinguished biographer, writing his

natural post column, identifying what Canada has that the U.S. needs, the whole world needs, but Canada has it,

which is an enormous deposit of chromium in Ontario.

And Ontario's government, Doug Ford, and ready to open it up to exploitation, mining, shipping, trade with the U.S.

No need to go to China for critical elements.

Chromium's right there, enough for, I'm told, a century for everyone.

Canada has other riches to be exploited, is the word.

You were blessed, Canada.

And it's time to deal with the U.S.

It no longer wants to depend upon China

and its intricate monopoly thinking.

Here's Conrad to explain.

Much more of this than I.

Space and stainless steel Is Conrad to explain much more of this tonight?...space.

And, you know, stainless steel, it's not only for dinnerware,

you use it in warships and aircraft and missiles and so on.

And it's irreplaceable.

You have to have it.

Now, there isn't a shortage of chrome in the world right now but you know that there is this great stress on strategic minerals and the

u.s. administration does not want to have to rely on on countries that could be rivals or could

otherwise be unreliable.

And right now, all of the chrome of the United States, practically all of it comes from either

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