Thank you very much, Mr. Chair, and thanks to all of the witnesses.
Mr. DeMarco, earlier on you had said that this is an intergenerational crisis that we're dealing with. Since I've heard of it for the last 50 years, I agree with you that it has been an intergenerational crisis. Some of the doom and gloom, of course, is sort of on the Nostradamus level.
This is what I would like to talk about. We're trying to take a look at the full life cycle of some of these new types of technologies, such as solar, wind, hydrogen and so on. I know you may not have some of that information in front of you, but I certainly think it would be good to have a look at that later, We just take these little snapshots of what this technology will do, but we don't look at the mining requirements and we don't look at the infrastructure for electricity and we don't look at what would be required for batteries, and so on. There's no energy source that doesn't require that type of an analysis, whether it be hydro or whatever. They all require that. I'm hopeful that this will take place.
In report 1 on page 9 you have spoken about other countries, their governance structures and how we are to coordinate our activities. We deal with North American countries, so obviously Mexico and the U.S. are critical to what we're trying to do. They're our trading partners.
I'm curious about how you might consider the incorporation of carbon taxes into their national economic structure and how they are managing these costs when it comes to exports and imports, because they are both our competition and our partners in so many ways in the supply chain.
Was any of that put into your analysis on exhibit 1.2 when you were speaking of what others countries are doing, or was it strictly to describe the fact that they had carbon pricing?