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Mr. Hains is an industrial minerals exploration and economic geologist with many years' experience in development, use, and analysis of industrial minerals properties and materials. His experience covers most of the industrial minerals and several specialty metals, especially lithium, tantalum, niobium, gallium, germanium, and rare earths. He is a registered professional geoscientist in Ontario.

Elected to the Legislative Assembly of the Northwest Territories (NWT) in 2015, Wally Schumann completed a successful term. He served as Minister of Transportation, Environment and Natural Resources, Industry Tourism and Investment, Public Works, and the first Minister of Infrastructure in the NWT. Prior to entering territorial politics, Wally served in several leadership roles and as president of the Hay River Métis government council. In this capacity, Wally was an instrumental part of the negotiating team that secured the first-ever Impact Benefit Agreement (IBA) with De Beers Canada.