It depends on the company and the agreement. In response to the Inflation Reduction Act, there were a number of policies. You have the SIF program, run through ISED, which helps with capex. When a company is retooling a plant or building a new plant, they can access that fund.
What we saw was in response to what the U.S. had done: The U.S. introduced production credits, basically in an effort to pull investment into the United States. If you built a battery in the U.S., you would get a credit for every single battery that rolled off the line.
In addition to some of the traditional support for capex, we saw these additional production supports.
I want to note for the record here that sometimes the numbers the government has committed to this get overinflated because they're based on an assumption that companies were going to build plants on time and manufacture to the maximum.
Given what has happened to the EV market, which is in near collapse, no one is producing at those levels, so the amount of production subsidy that would go to companies in the battery supply chain is far below what was anticipated, but they were very critical to securing investment in Canada because the IRA was trying to draw that away.
