We're talking about the critical minerals and rare earth elements that China seems to have a great deal of control over, not just within mainland China; there are also PRC influence and ownership in mines in Africa and the Americas.
Look at how COVID impacted us and how critical supply chains were disrupted. Russia and China hold the hammer on a lot of these critical minerals. As a case in point, helium is another one that's really necessary in the production of semiconductors. Korea, Japan and Taiwan are really concerned about access to helium.
Is there a role here for Canada, again, to ensure that two of our adversarial nations, Russia and China, don't have complete control of some of these critical minerals?