Thank you, Madam Chair.
Mr. Harvey, you did touch a bit on the current national order. Globalization, as we knew it during the last several decades, is on its way down. The former cheerleaders of international trade investment countries are now practising friendshoring protectionism, and that is leading to lots of non-tariff barriers. Canadian exports, obviously, always face these non-tariff barriers. For example, the beef exports to Japan and South Korea faced the age of the cattle problem and those types of cuts, and even Japan was putting some restrictions on frozen beef exports.
I'm glad you have a background in mining. Non-tariff barriers being imposed by countries like Tanzania through banning or limiting the exports of gold and copper concentrates and insisting on domestic processing. In DRC, I believe, the second-biggest cobalt mine was shut down, again by non-tariff barriers, by insisting on domestic processing.
Indonesia, with which we are now discussing a free trade agreement, has now banned the export of raw nickel ore, and it is also imposing an export tax of up to10%, if I'm not wrong, and insisting on domestic content and domestic processing.
Before I come back to you with a specific question, I have a question for Mr. Christidis, who is not only the vice-president of the Canadian Nuclear Association but also my boss, because he's my constituent.
George, we are negotiating a trade agreement with India. India is a big market for the Canadian nuclear industry. It's not just the uranium; potentially, there's a huge market for the SMRs, the small modular reactors.
Now that the negotiations are going on with India, I have two questions specifically and quickly.
Has the Canadian negotiating team consulted you on what's happening with the negotiations with India?
Number two, do you see any non-tariff barriers coming up from India for the nuclear exports, maybe for SMRs, in terms of the domestic content requirements? It already has certain non-tariff barriers for pulse exports to India. Similarly, do you foresee anything from India there?