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According to a recent report by the nonprofit MiningWatch Canada, the country is home to more than 1,300 mining and exploration companies, 730 of which operate overseas.

At the Republican National Convention last summer, for example, he lamented how in small towns across the US "jobs were sent overseas and children were sent to war".

The Trump administration has repeatedly made clear that it wants overseas spending to be closely aligned with its "America First" approach.

The initiative is in response to concerns by UK firms that they are losing ground to competition overseas, where approvals processes take half the time.

They were trafficked to the centres after they were lured overseas by promises of good jobs.