It's never in Canada's interests for any country to have a dominant role in any supply chain, including in this area. Particularly because the sector is changing so much right now, there is lots of movement and many countries want a piece of this. There are a number of potential risks.
With the case of China in particular, we've seen in the past that it has willingly used its control over certain parts of the critical mineral supply chain to restrict access to global partners. In the past, that has been challenged at the WTO successfully. China did comply with the ruling and prices were stabilized again. However, as we've seen, China does not always observe the rule of law, and there are certain areas of international law in which we have lots of examples to demonstrate that.
We need to be constantly aware of the dangers of one country having control of the supply chain, and even more so when it's China.