That's where Canada has a unique natural advantage because those are our natural resources. I think we should really seriously look at what, perhaps uniquely among some of the NATO countries, Canada can provide by virtue of those natural resource holdings.
I think we should help to create mechanisms that would change some of the price structures that China uses to make it much more difficult for western countries to create their own sources of supply on a sustainable basis.
The real added value that we can provide is getting those resources out of the ground and processed. That might be where we can carve out a particularly value-added contribution to the NATO alliance because most of the other allies don't have the same kinds of natural resource deposits that we do.
The real key is not to just have the deposits, but to get them meaningfully into defence supply chains. I think there's a long way to go there. I'm hoping that part of what comes forward with the defence industrial strategy would include initiatives around critical minerals. We're seeing investments in this by other NATO allies, like the United States in Canadian companies. I think the Government of Canada can take a significant role in trying to create the right kind of market conditions to get much more critical mineral extraction and processing happening here in this country.