Many in our caucus, particularly Colin Carrie, among others, have really impressed upon members of Parliament like me.... I'm from British Columbia, and in some cases people will ask me, “Why is it in Ottawa that they're only talking about cars and steel and aluminum? Why aren't they talking about forestry?”
I say that it is important for all of these things, but there's one area I would like your feedback on. You talked about not just having money where we're sitting back, that we should be looking at where the opportunities are in research and development and where we figure in it. Making sure we have clean and cheap electricity could be a competitive advantage. We've lost that tremendously in Ontario, I understand. Also, in my area, I have two copper mines. When I go and talk to the people who work at the mines, they say they'd like to see more emphasis put on their products in electric vehicles, because there's twice as much copper in an electric vehicle than there is in just a regular car.
Would this involve talking about not just how we can benefit at your end in terms of that value add, but also how we can go soup to nuts, building off of our resource sector, which has put a lot of food on tables in my neck of the woods, in addition to working with you for that next part of the value chain?