Mr. Perkins, it's always a pleasure to see you. I was missing you during the last week.
I think what we need in critical minerals are speed and scale. Certainly we've been working extremely hard to make sure that we will have more scale when it comes to critical minerals. The recent focus of Teck in the critical mineral sector is good news. Recently Rio Tinto announced that they intend to invest billions of dollars with respect to lithium and other critical minerals.
You will know that we have the only refinery of cobalt in all of North America. We already have an industry of graphite in Quebec, and Nemaska Lithium is going to be one of the first refineries in the country. There are others in the country, so I think what we need now is to make sure that we match the demand and the offer, and I welcome these kinds of investments because they're going to provide scale.
To your other question on the exemption, if I may, for folks who are watching at home, it is quite standard, when you have tariffs that are imposed, that you have what you call remission order exemptions to support small and medium-sized businesses in very exceptional cases. However, having been in touch with the leaders of Volkswagen and Stellantis about their plants, this is not an issue that we discussed. Their focus is on making sure that their plant will be opening and that they can supply the North American market.