Thank you very much, Madam Chair.
I thank all the witnesses. Everything we are hearing this morning is really very interesting.
I would like to ask questions of Mr. Leclerc and Ms. Aubry, but I will put one to Mr. Mills first.
My mother used to say, “If nothing gets created, nothing gets lost.”
Mr. Mills, earlier you talked about exports in relation to the greenhouse gas issue. If we want to create an electric car fleet in a time frame that I too find completely unrealistic, it will require mines, as you said. In Quebec, it takes 10 years to open a mine.
They want to create new mines to extract the raw material needed to manufacture the batteries in question and export it to China, where the batteries will unfortunately be manufactured, and then import those batteries here to install them in electric vehicles. There's something unrealistic about that.
We all live on the same planet. We all want to make the transition at some point. What are your thoughts on this transition?
How long is it going to be? How long is it going to take?