Well, I'll be honest with you. I've been talking about the electric mobility industry to the people in the federal government for almost 20 years, and things have really accelerated, I would say, in the past two years, with the great work that has been done with Minister Champagne, Minister Wilkinson, Minister Guilbeault and Minister Alghabra. We are seeing that something is really happening.
That's why we are seeing more and more companies from around the world wanting to come to Canada. Is it perfect? No. We need to have the critical minerals strategy go faster than this, because the opportunities are now. In terms of what's happening south of the border, when we were having those discussions a year ago, if you remember, we were worried that Canada would not be part of a North American battery strategy plan. Now that this is going in the right direction, we have to advance right now.
I am not a patient man. Elon Musk is not a patient man either. Right now, we are seeing problems in Germany. I don't know if you've heard about that. The Gigafactory in Germany is having problems because of regulation. If a company like Tesla wants to come to Canada, we want to make sure that we can welcome them any way we can. If it were not for Tesla, we wouldn't be having this conversation.
Let's be honest about the future of electric mobility: Yes, we have other partners and manufacturers who are doing their share, but the leadership of a company like that is too important for us to ignore. That's why we have to find ways to move both environmentally and economically at a pace that's fast enough.
Things are so quick these days. It's surprising. Sometimes it's twice a day—