Thank you, Madam Chair.
I would like to address my first question to Mr. Colin Robertson.
Mr. Robertson, I was glad to hear you mention industrial policy three or maybe four times. I rarely hear that. I've been saying that we need an industrial policy statement for the country. The IRA is obviously one of the most significant pieces of legislation that has come out of the U.S. for the manufacturing sector and the economy in general. We can take this piece of legislation along with the $280-billion CHIPS and Science Act, $200 billion of which is for setting up 20 technology centres focusing on semiconductors, energy transition and biotechnology. Some experts in the U.S. are calling this a once-in-a-generation opportunity, or a once-in-a-lifetime change the U.S. has made to industrial policy. I'm also glad you mentioned continental industrial policy.
We talk about various strategies. For example, we recently announced the critical minerals strategy, and when it comes to new technologies such as artificial intelligence, robotics and genomics, we talk big. We have said that we want to be at the forefront of every new technology, which is good, ideally, but whether it's possible or not I'm not sure. Do you think we need a Canadian industrial policy?