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      "id": "src-nrcan-cms-2022",
      "title": "Minister Wilkinson Releases Canada's $3.8-billion Critical Minerals Strategy to Seize Generational Opportunity for Clean, Inclusive Growth",
      "publisher": "Natural Resources Canada",
      "url": "https://www.canada.ca/en/natural-resources-canada/news/2022/12/minister-wilkinson-releases-canadas-38-billion-critical-minerals-strategy-to-seize-generational-opportunity-for-clean-inclusive-growth.html",
      "language": "en",
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      "sourceType": "official",
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      "notes": "Natural Resources Canada's own release announcing the Strategy, datelined \"December 9, 2022 Vancouver, British Columbia\". Read in full 2026-08-12. Source of the funding figure, the five stated outcomes and the attributed ministerial quotation. Caveat: this release announces the Strategy and is not the Strategy document itself; the 31-mineral list it refers to was not machine-read in this session, so the material scope coded on the event is limited to the minerals this release names. Re-read in full in a browser on 2026-09-23 (canada.ca times out for automated clients); every amount and quotation in the Capital & Control rows that cite it was checked against that text."
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      "id": "src-nrcan-cmrdd-2024",
      "title": "Government of Canada Supporting Critical Minerals Processing in Kingston",
      "publisher": "Natural Resources Canada",
      "url": "https://www.canada.ca/en/natural-resources-canada/news/2024/09/government-of-canada-supporting-critical-minerals-processing-in-kingston.html",
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      "notes": "NRCan's own press release announcing $8.4 million under the Critical Minerals Research, Development and Demonstration (CMRDD) program, split between Cyclic Materials Incorporated ($4.9 million, rare-earth permanent-magnet recycling) and Green Graphite Technologies Inc. ($3.5 million, battery-grade graphite). States the Budget 2022 / $3.8 billion Canadian Critical Minerals Strategy funding lineage directly. Re-read in full in a browser on 2026-09-23 (canada.ca times out for automated clients); every amount and quotation in the Capital & Control rows that cite it was checked against that text."
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