I'm glad to see the traditions are still alive, touting your riding and your jurisdiction and taking shots in your question at other members in a friendly kind of way. Nonetheless, Mr. Lemire, let me be pointed in my response, given the time constraints.
There's no question that electric vehicles are all the rage, baby, as Austin Powers might frame it, but there are a couple of other important things that critical minerals have to do for the world, and they can come from Canada. Frankly, battery storage would be really nice in our major corridor through southern Ontario and Quebec, so we don't have to spill electricity at ridiculous prices into the United States. I'm not sure if you've thought about that, but we're looking at that in Ontario. Batteries will require those kinds of critical minerals to do storage. Given the demand of other high-tech industries, including our iPhones and everything else, you can't have one of those without critical minerals.
Of course, there's also national defence. If you take a look at the situation between Ukraine and Russia, and the implications for jurisdictions the world over, this is in part about a looming crisis around critical minerals. There's access to titanium. Russia has threatened nickel. Many of these elements are absolutely essential as countries around the world increase their defence spending. Most defence technology comes—