Precisely what I said. I'd like to draw your attention to the following. The race is real. As you saw last week, Serbia withdrew the Rio Tinto permit for one of the largest lithium mines in the world. It gave environmental reasons as a justification, but everyone knows that it is a dramatic strategic repositioning. Serbia has just done it and several other countries are in the process of doing so. When transactions were underway in Quebec, I told the politicians that Australia would never agree to sell a lithium mine to Canadian undertakings.
The federal government needs to introduce a policy to support all of these areas. Quebec's policy is fine. Quebec is willing to electrify and provide assistance, but it forgot the minerals aspect. We can't let minerals go and assume that we will be integrated into the market. I have been to China often and can tell you that all our graphite is currently being sold to the Chinese. They would be willing to purchase our graphite mine tomorrow. Why? Because the Chinese don't want to sell us anodes or cathodes. Nor do they want to sell us battery packs. They want to sell us electric vehicles for $18,000 or $20,000, as if they were Bic ballpoint pens. They have told us this clearly.
We sell our raw materials to the people who make anodes for Tesla and Volkswagen. What the Chinese want is to stop selling anodes and cathodes because that's not where they will be making their money. They want to sell cars. They have stated this clearly. They are trying to have us sign very long term contracts to gain control of raw materials, just as they did for uranium in Australia, where they completely shut down the uranium market and tried to buy up everything. Why would they do that? Because they know that one day this mineral will be critical, that they will have it and that we will not. What does that mean for Canada? That we will lose our automobile industry in Ontario and lose Lion Electric if it does not start producing anodes and cathodes. Don't be misled into thinking that Tesla makes batteries.