Sure. Thank you very much for the question.
We have a very active dialogue that has been ongoing for two and a half or three years with the United States as a critical mineral joint action plan and we have collaborative work with the U.S. under five working groups. It's shared among federal departments. Mr. Kennedy's department co-chairs some of those, as do our defence department and others. We have areas of collaboration around defence. We have research into [Technical difficulty—Editor]. and innovate. We're focused on sharing information, sharing data, having researchers work together and having trade and promotion activities in which U.S. companies are thinking about Canada and Canada is thinking about the U.S.
We have a similar dialogue with the EU. We're in a raw materials partnership with the European Union, which was started about a year ago, and we're co-operating there in research and development and having multilateral dialogue as well.
In all of these, we're aligning where we have common interests around sustainable development, around trying to crack some of the research codes on how to process better and around how to have better environmental performance, for example. That kind of collaborative work has been a priority on critical minerals for a number of years now, and at this point we are continuing that collaboration quite extensively.