Canada Should Work With Washington on Critical Minerals Without Deferring to It
Allies are coordinating on critical minerals. Canada risks losing leverage unless it engages Washington on its own terms.
Robert M. Cutler / @robertmcutler
Director and Senior Fellow, Energy Security Program, NATO Association of Canada
Robert M. Cutler is Director and Senior Research Fellow at the NATO Association of Canada and a Practitioner Member at the Waterloo Institute for Complexity and Innovation, University of Waterloo. With over 25 years of consulting in international energy geoeconomics and security, he previously researched and taught at top universities in Canada, France, Russia, Switzerland, and the US. Educated at MIT, and the University of Michigan, he was for many years a senior researcher at Carleton University's Institute for European, Russian & Eurasian Studies. He is also the Past Chair of the Montreal Press Club's Board of Directors and a former CIC Fellow.
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