I agree.
I believe, Mr. Poirier, you mentioned, when you were in front of the finance committee, the supply chain bottlenecks. We're talking about opportunities in Canada. What frustrates me is that in Canada we have the ability to take the minerals out of the ground, process them, build them, put them into a part, put them onto a manufacturing product and then export them for all the value-added chains.
With these critical minerals, you mentioned in your testimony that according to a CVMA survey, already nine out of 10 Canadian manufacturers report encountering supply chain issues. It seems again that Canada's reactive approach, instead of a proactive approach, is putting us at a disadvantage competitively.
Mr. Poirier, perhaps you could give us an idea.... I believe it was Mr. DiCaro who mentioned mines. We have the minerals. Could you please let us know how long it takes to get a mine up and running so that we can supply minerals to Canadian supply chains? Do you have any idea? I think Mr. Kingston mentioned some lithium, nickel and cobalt opportunities, but how many of these mines do we have up and running for the amount of materials we're going to need to put into these cars?