I'm glad to be back, Madame Chair. My first question would be for Ms. Kwan.
If we go back to the fall of 2021, there was quite a lot of concern about the tax credit incentives for electric vehicle manufacturing, and particularly the possibility of Canada being frozen out of the industry based on the conditions that were attached to those tax credits.
I was part of an effort to go down and lobby in Washington to ensure that Canada wasn't frozen out of those provisions. Canadian labour played a really important role, particularly some of the international unions that have brother and sister locals in the United States. I think of the United Steelworkers and my own union, the IBEW, and the Teamsters.
I know you talked earlier about the importance of having labour at the table. Could you speak a little to that specific example and also expand a little bit on ensuring that organized labour is at the table for discussions about IRA investments and Canadian equivalents, and about collaboration between Canada and the U.S. in this new economic chapter directed at fighting climate change? If you want to speak a little bit to what labour has to offer when its voice is at the table, I think that would be a fine thing.