I would say that we need to make sure that we not only extract the resources but transform the resources here as well.
In the past, Canada was very good at extracting resources, whether it was wood or oil or anything else. The crude products would be sent outside the country. Then we would end up having value-added products come back to us. The best jobs and the best technologies would be developed elsewhere.
As I mentioned, when we're talking about battery technology that was developed in Quebec and Nova Scotia, it would make no sense if Canada had a critical minerals strategy whereby we would send our crude products, our minerals, to the U.S. for them to transform them and make them into packs and batteries. I think it's very important that we have an integrated strategy that will create as many jobs as we can in Canada.
That's why we need regulation that is ambitious enough and stringent enough for us to not let every mineral that comes out of the earth in Canada go directly to China, or anywhere else, for that matter. I think this is very important.