Sudbury, ON – Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre said today that his Canada First Conservative Government will set a goal to green-light all federal permits for the Ring of Fire in Northern Ontario within six months to harvest chromite, cobalt, nickel, copper and platinum.

Poilievre will also commit $1 billion over three years to the construction of a long-overdue road, connecting First Nations communities and the critical mineral deposits in the Ring of Fire to the Ontario highway network, while allowing companies investing in the Ring of Fire to pay a share of their federal corporate taxes to local First Nations.

Located 500 kilometres north of Thunder Bay, the Ring of Fire is one of the largest untapped areas for rare earth metals in the world, hosting tens of billions of dollars of resource wealth.

“Unlocking the Ring of Fire will be life-changing for Northern Ontario towns and First Nation communities, galvanized by thousands …