Thank you, Chair. I'll just answer very briefly.
I'm not an economist, but I think what you've heard from other witnesses today is that Canada, like many other countries, has been slow to think about the value chain involved in critical minerals and the transition to a green economy. We are, hopefully, trying to catch up.
Part of the business of catching up is to create a made-in-Canada capacity to identify critical mineral source locations, to extract minerals, to process them and to feed them into global supply chains, but at the moment we are nowhere near that with regard to lithium, which is regarded by many as a critical mineral. We have other strengths in other more traditional mineral extraction, but we haven't yet headed in the direction of being able to create that made-in-Canada capacity that can feed into a global marketplace to Canada's benefit.
Allowing a junior miner with a significant experimental project in Argentina, I'll call it, to slip into the hands of the Chinese seems to me to be an indication of a legacy policy whereby we have not properly thought about our capacity to build made-in-Canada knowledge and capabilities in the new economy when it comes to critical minerals. That is the direction in which we need to go. Whenever we see a critical minerals strategy being produced by Natural Resources Canada, that should be an important question directed at that strategy. Hopefully it is going to be embedded very strongly in it, but we haven't seen that critical minerals strategy yet.