What might those partnerships look like? I think there are some lessons to be taken from our recent history with the industry strategy council and the economic strategy tables. They were a very good start, but they don't get to the next level down of getting more granular, getting more specific and developing plans and road maps.
We've sketched out at Smart Prosperity, together with our collaborators and transition accelerator, a proposal for building these collaborative partnerships with leadership from the federal government. We would say that one way to do this is to have a lead department tasked with delivering on a clean competitiveness goal—one of the areas I was mentioning—and tasked with creating a sector strategy and road map, but these are then set up as, effectively, partnerships involving business, stakeholders, finance and first nations to develop a strategy that leads to the identification of priority projects and priority policy supports.
These sorts of tables, if you want to call them that, could be a competitiveness table for hydrogen or a competitiveness table for the electric vehicle and battery supply chain, and they would be asked to make periodic recommendations on three things: evaluating the effectiveness of current goals and strategies, identifying the mix of policies needed to achieve these goals and identifying priority investments and projects for the sector.
Ideally you would have some form of working group to oversee the work of these various tables. That could be perhaps under the leadership of PMO or PCO, because it's important to find and identify the interdependencies, the connections, across these areas, and they—