I'd like to thank Mr. Sorbara. For the record, he's one of our very best, having been on Wall Street and Bay Street.
One of the things Canadians may not know is that Canada packages and tests about 80% of all the semiconductors that are manufactured in North America. You would appreciate that part of my mission has been to make sure that Canada is integrated in this key strategic supply chain.
I even flagged at the time that I was thinking we should replicate what we've been doing between Detroit and Windsor to have this corridor between Albany and Bromont, because, in fact, if you look at the CHIPS act in the United States and the investment they've been making, my point to our American friends is always about the resiliency of the supply chain. I said that they have their best ally, partner and friend just up north, which packages 80% of every semiconductor that is manufactured in North America, mainly in the United States.
When President Biden came to the House of Commons, he made the point that we have a very integrated supply chain when it comes to semiconductors. This was a great investment because, for us, it allowed us to keep our leading position. We want to make sure that we can be a trusted, reliable and significant partner to the United States. The fact that we invested to modernize.... Packaging and testing is far more than what people believe. Packaging is not about wrapping. It's really how many semiconductors you can put on a wafer. It is the most advanced technology you can find in the world.
We're very fortunate that we have that capacity in Canada. The IBM plant was opened in 1972 in Bromont. By the way, it's the largest IBM packaging and testing plant in the world, and this is in Canada. The investment that we're doing to be able to have a very stable, integrated supply chain with our American colleagues is the foresight we need. We are doing that in semiconductors. We've done that in the battery ecosystem. We're doing that in aluminum. That's the way you build a growth plan for North America.