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Heather Exner-Pirot

Heather Exner-Pirot is a senior policy analyst at the Macdonald-Laurier Institute.

Opinion | BY HEATHER EXNER-PIROT | February 25, 2026
Energy and Natural Resources Minister Tim Hodgson has to carry the prime minister’s message that Canada is an energy superpower that has what the world needs, writes Heather Exner-Pirot. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade
Opinion | BY HEATHER EXNER-PIROT | February 25, 2026
Opinion | BY HEATHER EXNER-PIROT | February 25, 2026
Energy and Natural Resources Minister Tim Hodgson has to carry the prime minister’s message that Canada is an energy superpower that has what the world needs, writes Heather Exner-Pirot. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade
Opinion | BY HEATHER EXNER-PIROT | June 16, 2025
Amongst NATO’s list of defence-critical raw materials, Canada is well positioned to fill almost all of them, in particular aluminum, cobalt, germanium, gallium, tungsten, titanium, graphite, platinum, and some rare earths, writes Heather Exner-Pirot, director of energy, natural resources and environment at the Macdonald-Laurier Institute. Photograph courtesy of Deyler Rivera Segura, Pexels.com
Opinion | BY HEATHER EXNER-PIROT | June 16, 2025
Opinion | BY HEATHER EXNER-PIROT | June 16, 2025
Amongst NATO’s list of defence-critical raw materials, Canada is well positioned to fill almost all of them, in particular aluminum, cobalt, germanium, gallium, tungsten, titanium, graphite, platinum, and some rare earths, writes Heather Exner-Pirot, director of energy, natural resources and environment at the Macdonald-Laurier Institute. Photograph courtesy of Deyler Rivera Segura, Pexels.com
Opinion | BY HEATHER EXNER-PIROT | December 2, 2024
Foreign Affairs Minister Mélanie Joly is preparing an Arctic foreign policy, in consultation with Indigenous partners, territorial governments and Arctic allies. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade
Opinion | BY HEATHER EXNER-PIROT | December 2, 2024
Opinion | BY HEATHER EXNER-PIROT | December 2, 2024
Foreign Affairs Minister Mélanie Joly is preparing an Arctic foreign policy, in consultation with Indigenous partners, territorial governments and Arctic allies. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade
Opinion | BY HEATHER EXNER-PIROT | January 27, 2022
Natural Resources Minister Jonathan Wilkinson, pictured in Ottawa Oct. 27, 2021, with his staffers James Hutching and Ian Cameron. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade
Opinion | BY HEATHER EXNER-PIROT | January 27, 2022
Opinion | BY HEATHER EXNER-PIROT | January 27, 2022
Natural Resources Minister Jonathan Wilkinson, pictured in Ottawa Oct. 27, 2021, with his staffers James Hutching and Ian Cameron. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade