Thank you to all the witnesses for being with us.
Mr. DiCaro, last winter, we conducted a study on electric vehicles. One of the recommendations in the report was about the importance of building a strong supply chain, from ore extraction to lithium ferro phosphate battery production and electric vehicle production here, in Canada.
It seems that we are taking too long to build this chain in Canada. I would like to know what factors make Canada less competitive on the world stage in terms of producing these batteries.