To listen to a senior Government of Canada bureaucrat speaking before a parliamentary committee is to gain a fresh appreciation for the phrase: “The triumph of hope over experience.”
Wendy Hadwen is the assistant deputy minister of policy-industry at the Department of National Defence, and Isabella Chan is senior assistant deputy minister, lands and minerals, at the Department of Natural Resources. They both testified on Monday before the defence committee on the “nexus between national defence, national security and Canada’s critical minerals sector.”
