Thank you.
Thank you to all the witnesses.
I will continue with Ms. Gingrich with a follow-up to that question.
You talked about the need for value-added critical minerals. When I was in the natural resources committee in the last Parliament, we had a study on critical minerals and talked a lot about the need for a vertical ecosystem, from exploration to mining—graphite, lithium, cobalt, rare earth metals, etc.—to the production of battery parts, the production of batteries and the manufacture of cars and recycling batteries. It's the whole ecosystem.
I'm wondering if you could expand on that idea and talk about what we need to do to make that happen. We've all heard about the need for a quick response here, both in terms of maintaining our trade position with the United States and in terms of what needs to be done in the fight against climate change. What do we need to do? It includes training so we can have the good union jobs that a lot of workers had been getting in the oil patch as it declined over the decades, but what do we need to do right now? What does this government need to do to help your union members?