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  "projectId": "prj-ca-ggt-graphite-recycling-pilot",
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    "revision": "2026-11-03",
    "legalStatusCutoff": "2026-11-03",
    "view": "current_corpus_revision",
    "notice": "Curated corpus revision, not source freshness or historical known-as-of coverage. Financial histories retain their own status dates."
  },
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            "actor"
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      "projectRelationship": "directly_attributable",
      "projectId": "prj-ca-ggt-graphite-recycling-pilot",
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        "currency": "CAD",
        "qualifier": "exact",
        "amountAsStated": "NRCan is providing $3.5 million to GGT for this initiative",
        "currencyBasis": "issuer_context",
        "basisNote": null,
        "basisLabel": null
      },
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        "org-green-graphite-technologies"
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      "terms": [],
      "statedOutcomes": [],
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            "programme"
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          "note": null
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    }
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  "designations": [],
  "nativeMilestones": [],
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    {
      "id": "evt-ca-nrcan-cmrdd-2024",
      "relationship": "finance_or_designation_parent",
      "jurisdiction": "canada",
      "issuingBody": "Natural Resources Canada",
      "titleEn": "Government of Canada Supporting Critical Minerals Processing in Kingston",
      "titleOriginal": "Government of Canada Supporting Critical Minerals Processing in Kingston",
      "documentNumber": null,
      "date": "2024-09-04",
      "policyStatus": "active",
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        "src-nrcan-cmrdd-2024"
      ]
    }
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    {
      "childFinanceId": "fin-ca-cmrdd-2024-green-graphite",
      "parentFinanceId": "fin-ca-cmrdd-2024-kingston-awards",
      "relation": "part_of",
      "projectMoneyAllocation": "not_asserted",
      "evidence": [
        {
          "sourceId": "src-nrcan-cmrdd-2024",
          "locator": "Opening paragraph"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "unknowns": [
    "No project-native source-reviewed industrial milestone is published. Attributed activity in financing histories remains a separate evidence class; no exact milestone date or facility-wide conclusion is inferred.",
    "Historical amount review is incomplete. Current amounts cannot be read as a time series of earlier commitments.",
    "Structural links and shared materials do not demonstrate that a government measure caused an industrial outcome."
  ],
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    {
      "id": "src-canada-grant-ggt-cmrdd-2024",
      "title": "Grant and contribution record — Recycling of Graphite from Secondary Sources for Use in Lithium-Ion Batteries",
      "publisher": "Government of Canada Open Government Portal / Natural Resources Canada",
      "url": "https://search.open.canada.ca/grants/record/nrcan-rncan%2C115-2024-2025-Q2-15593%2Ccurrent",
      "language": "en",
      "sourceType": "dataset",
      "confidence": "primary",
      "publishedOn": null,
      "accessedOn": "2026-10-02"
    },
    {
      "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",
      "language": "en",
      "sourceType": "official",
      "confidence": "primary",
      "publishedOn": "2024-09-04",
      "accessedOn": "2026-09-23"
    },
    {
      "id": "src-nrcan-cmrdd-programme",
      "title": "Critical Minerals Research, Development and Demonstration Program",
      "publisher": "Natural Resources Canada",
      "url": "https://www.canada.ca/en/campaign/critical-minerals-in-canada/federal-support-for-critical-mineral-projects-and-value-chains/critical-minerals-research-development-and-demonstration-program.html",
      "language": "en",
      "sourceType": "official",
      "confidence": "primary",
      "publishedOn": null,
      "accessedOn": "2026-10-07"
    }
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  "limitations": [
    "Policy contexts here parent existing finance or designation records; a shared material or date never creates a causal edge.",
    "Coannounced controls are announcement siblings only, not project-specific restrictions or effects.",
    "Direct project attribution and nonallocative association are different. No individual monetary allocation, financial sum or payment conclusion is authorized.",
    "Financing statuses describe the current corpus revision. Legacy implementation observations require scoped review and are not project-native milestones.",
    "A milestone's event/target date, publication/access horizon and reviewer date are separate. A planned target is not automatically occurred.",
    "An absent reviewed milestone means no approved entry in SMPT, not that the facility is inactive or failed.",
    "Amounts retain current source-stated terms, original currency and exact decimal strings. This packet computes no historical financial totals or project-wide monetary allocation.",
    "Published source review does not establish independent on-site verification. Source, financial-status, occurrence, target and review dates remain distinct."
  ]
}