Yes, I would love to jump in here.
At the end of the day, we're talking about our defence industrial supply chain. This has economic implications, but we have to be able to defend ourselves, fight in wars and protect ourselves and our alliance.
Canada has only 43 million people. We will never have a totally sovereign, independent defence supply chain. We depend on being part of an alliance. The best thing we can do within that alliance to be that good player and get leverage and influence is provide some raw materials to that alliance so that the defence supply chains in the United States and Europe can ramp up in the event of a conflict.
If there's a war of attrition, China would win today, so it's very important that we have latent capacity. Then we could ramp up quickly, and we could be the arsenal of democracy and make sure there are the raw materials to fight a protracted war.
To my earlier point, we did go through a period in Canada where we did not allow financing for defence companies. We have not been allowing research for military purposes. I see that we've changed it on the financing side, which is good. We want our defence companies to be able to access loans and lending, but I still think we are not there yet on the research side. We haven't changed our mindset to wanting to create researchers who can do research that is used for military offensive purposes, which we need in this country to be able to fight wars.