I am the member for Abitibi—Témiscamingue, where the mining sector represents a very big part of the region's economy. Can I hope that developing the mining of strategic minerals, such as lithium, will create jobs locally, especially in secondary and tertiary processing—that is the key sector—and leave the smallest possible carbon footprint?
Since sustainability is now part of the vocabulary in the mining industry, can we expect that in the lithium business?