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Potash is a key component in agricultural fertilizer, and demand is on the rise worldwide. Farms in places such as China, India and Japan are consuming ever larger quantities.

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Canada is the largest potash producer in the world (about one-third of the total). Our annual potash exports are valued at around $9 billion to $11 billion and are expected to grow for the next couple of decades.

Potash is Canada’s fifth-largest export commodity.

So when Nutrien, the world’s largest potash mining company, based in Saskatoon, says it’s looking to build a new billion-dollar export terminal, don’t you think that Prime Minister Mark Carney and his vaunted Major Projects Office (MPO) would jump at the chance to help the company find a Canadian site and remove any roadblocks to the terminal’s construction?

That’s precisely what Carney has said his MPO is there for, over and over again.

Sure, the Nutrien terminal is not on either of Carney’s first lists of “nation-building”........

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