As an association, we've been asking for accelerated capital cost provisions. I would note that these continue to be temporary and not permanent. We should make them permanent.
On the investment tax credit side, those supports are required. I would suggest that we need to continue to take a broader look and make sure that the enabling sectors that allow these technologies, especially critical minerals, are included in those mechanisms. We're focused on the mine but not on the chemicals that are required for the mineral to be processed.
There are lots of examples where the government is doing the things it needs to do to incentivize industrial activity, but there's always room to improve. Generally speaking, if it's not helping, it's hurting. That needs to be a mindset. That competitiveness lens needs to be the mindset through which we look at a broad sector of policy action when it comes to industrial manufacturing in Canada.
