Expanding Canada-Mongolia Relations: Resource-Based Democracies in Collaboration

Abstract

As Mongolia’s Oyu Tolgoi giant gold and copper mine begins a decades-long development financed, in part, by Vancouver-based Ivanhoe Mines, the country faces one of its harshest winters on record. The author argues that as Canada is the largest mining investor in Mongolia, it should be prepared to offer humanitarian assistance to help Mongolia manage the disaster it is facing, as well as support for democratic development and improved opportunities for people-to-people exchanges.