Sure. Thank you for the question. It's nice to see you, Viviane.
I've touched on the METC and public geoscience already, so maybe I'll leave those two issues aside. I've also touched on the need to focus on accelerating the regulatory process. Let me, then, skip further downstream and talk about the fact that we don't produce the right kind of nickel. We produce a lot of nickel, but it's not the nickel that's used for batteries.
I think one part of the strategy is figuring out how we entice industry that is producing different types of nickel, for which they have customers and no compelling need to change their customer base, to switch and start producing nickel sulphide for the battery market. That's an interesting policy question, I think. There's room there for government to say, “Look, it's in Canada's interest that you start producing this type of product. Our auto sector needs it and our whole critical mineral strategy needs this gap filled, so how can we convince you, as a partner, to change gears?” I think that's really important. You come from Sudbury. In that area, you have two large nickel mines that produce nickel and sell nickel worldwide. How do we convince them to set up a nickel sulphide plant in Canada? I think that is a really good question. I'm hopeful we'll get some answers in the near future. That would be another example of the kinds of policy steps I think we need.
I would also make the point that, in our view, there is a tendency to fixate on the battery itself, whereas there is an awful lot of economic opportunity from the exploration all the way through to the battery-grade materials that go into a battery. My concern is that if we focus only on trying to attract a battery plant, that battery plant will be importing materials from around the world. We haven't solved the problem we're trying to fix, which is being overly reliant on China. We need to build from the bottom up and plug the gaps we currently have. If we do that, then the battery manufacturers will want to set up shop in Canada because they'll have what it takes. I think there's a preponderance of focus on that final battery plant as the be-all and end-all, but I don't think that's actually where the focus should be.