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  "commitment": {
    "id": "fin-ca-g7-2025-vianode-edc-letter-of-interest",
    "eventId": "evt-ca-g7-cmpa-2025",
    "relationships": [],
    "instrument": "unspecified",
    "valueRole": "indication",
    "capitalSource": "public_enterprise",
    "amount": {
      "value": "500000000",
      "currency": "USD",
      "qualifier": "up_to",
      "amountAsStated": "a letter of interest for up to US$500 million in potential financing from Export Development Canada",
      "currencyBasis": "stated"
    },
    "provider": "Export Development Canada",
    "providerJurisdiction": "canada",
    "providerOrgIds": [
      "org-ca-edc"
    ],
    "legalAuthority": null,
    "programmeId": null,
    "recipient": "Vianode",
    "recipientOrgIds": [
      "org-vianode"
    ],
    "project": null,
    "projectId": "prj-ca-vianode-st-thomas",
    "facility": null,
    "locations": [
      {
        "countryCode": "CA",
        "subnational": "Ontario",
        "asStated": "St. Thomas, Ontario"
      }
    ],
    "stages": [
      "processing"
    ],
    "stageAllocation": "single_stage",
    "materialIds": [
      "graphite"
    ],
    "materialAttribution": "tracked_only",
    "untrackedMaterialsAsStated": [],
    "financialStatusHistory": [
      {
        "status": "announced",
        "date": null,
        "sourceId": "src-nrcan-g7-cmpa-2025",
        "note": "A letter of interest for \"potential financing\"; its date is not stated."
      }
    ],
    "implementationStatusHistory": [],
    "terms": [],
    "outcomes": [],
    "evidence": [
      {
        "sourceId": "src-nrcan-g7-cmpa-2025",
        "supports": [
          "instrument",
          "value_role",
          "capital_source",
          "amount",
          "provider",
          "recipient",
          "status",
          "project",
          "location",
          "materials"
        ],
        "evidence": "explicit",
        "locator": "Vianode paragraph",
        "note": null
      },
      {
        "sourceId": "src-nrcan-g7-cmpa-2025",
        "supports": [
          "stages"
        ],
        "evidence": "ambiguous",
        "locator": "Vianode paragraph",
        "note": "A synthetic graphite facility, read as processing."
      }
    ],
    "notes": "A letter of interest, recorded as a non-binding indication, not as a commitment: it names an amount but is not a financing commitment, so it is in no sum. A Canada Infrastructure Bank letter of interest is named without an amount and is not recorded."
  },
  "event": {
    "id": "evt-ca-g7-cmpa-2025",
    "date": "2025-10-31",
    "jurisdiction": "canada",
    "titleEn": "Canada unlocks 26 new investments and partnerships with 9 allied countries to secure critical minerals supply chains (G7 Critical Minerals Production Alliance, first round)"
  },
  "parents": [],
  "children": [],
  "sources": [
    {
      "id": "src-nrcan-g7-cmpa-2025",
      "title": "Backgrounder: Canada unlocks 26 new investments and partnerships with 9 allied countries to secure critical minerals supply chains",
      "publisher": "Natural Resources Canada",
      "url": "https://www.canada.ca/en/natural-resources-canada/news/2025/10/backgrounder-canada-unlocks-25-new-investments-and-partnerships-with-9-allied-countries-to-secure-critical-minerals-supply-chains.html",
      "language": "en",
      "datePublished": "2025-10-31",
      "dateAccessed": "2026-09-23",
      "sourceType": "official",
      "confidence": "primary",
      "notes": "NRCan backgrounder on the first round of projects under the G7 Critical Minerals Production Alliance, announced on 31 October 2025 at the G7 Energy and Environment Ministers' Meeting in Toronto. Read in full in a browser on 2026-09-23 (canada.ca times out for automated clients). Figures without a currency are Canadian dollars, read from the issuing government; figures in US dollars are printed as US$."
    }
  ]
}