Thank you very much for the question.
One of the areas of responsibility I have at ISED is critical minerals, working with NRCan. I believe I know who you're talking about in the situation you're describing. We are pursuing, in a very concerted way, how Canada can become a global, relevant player in critical minerals, including in the recycling component. Mining and processing the minerals is one thing, but there's also recycling, which will become a very important input to the entire system. We are live to this issue, and it's one area where we are trying to figure out the policy direction process to try to address that.
You're absolutely right. We're getting into a market situation more and more in which carbon—high carbon and low carbon—will become a market access issue. Countries are navigating their way through keeping resources to themselves, resources that might be better off being traded so all boats can float higher. There is market inefficiency, and the carbon-decarbonization component is playing into that. Then there are the costs of decarbonizing and dealing with that. Companies want to have a cheaper end result in how they deal with batteries. It's one of the market failures that I would say we have to address in the system.
I'm sorry if that wasn't very direct, but we're absolutely live to it and we understand the problem.