Thank you. That's a very good question.
We saw this in the 1990s. The government wanted to set up an industrial strategy for aeronautics. We were not yet a major player in that sector, but the government had decided to set up such a strategy so that we would become one.
There are people here who are much more qualified than I am to talk about industrial strategies in terms of integration, but we have the raw materials. If we didn't have them, we could just watch the train go by and hope that it doesn't cost too much at the end of the day, much like we do with COVID-19 vaccines. We're looking at the situation and hoping to get vaccines.
However, in this case, we have the raw materials. We own them. We must not sell them. We need governments to put an industrial strategy in place, which is not that expensive. The difficulty lies with having the natural resource, and we have it. It is important that an industrial strategy be put in place so that primary and secondary processing can take place in this country. We need to solicit local people—we have intelligent people—to turn to the manufacture of anodes or cathodes. We need to move toward integration.
We have a great company, Lion Electric, that makes school buses and is going to take over the world market. Do you know that the ore travels 35,000 kilometres from Quebec to China and then back to Lion Electric? This is not economical and it is certainly not environmentally friendly. We have to stop this right now. We have the natural resources. The ore must stop travelling and we must have an industrial strategy. We also need financial support, whether in terms of capital or debt, through development banks like Export Development Canada. With a strategy like this, we'll develop our natural resources properly.