I said earlier to everyone here on the committee how appreciative we are, because this is one file where we really worked as team Canada. We were completely focused on making sure that Canada was included in these important credits that will ultimately incentivize American consumers to buy electric vehicles, and electric vehicles that are made in Canada are such an important part of the Canadian economy and the auto sector.
What this has enabled us to do, of course, is attract the kinds of investments for the battery ecosystem that is now in Canada. Week after week, month after month, you're seeing our government make announcements of the investments—whether it's through BASF or others—that are coming into Canada to develop the battery ecosystem. It's really good to see, then, in the Inflation Reduction Act that the critical minerals that will come out of Canada will also be part of that supply chain in the creation of EVs.
A lot of work went into ensuring that Canada was carved into this and into maintaining a very important supply chain. I often reminded the Americans that a car probably crosses seven or eight times over our Canadian and United States border before it comes off the production line as final. That means workers on this side of the border and on that side of the border are working on it. It means that in the future, the critical minerals that will go into making the batteries are going to come into Canada and be processed and make their way into those vehicles. It means that for your motorcycles, that battery ecosystem is going to be key. So will the critical minerals. They will be key in this lucrative market of which we continue to be a part through this integrated supply chain of what is all of us, I would say, as Team Canada.
Again, it was members of this committee. It was all of us on all sides of the House. It was different levels of government. It was industry itself, the auto sector itself, the parts folks, the labour representatives, the labour unions and the workers themselves, so it really was team Canada.