If you think about Canada and Australia, they both have important endowments of critical metals and deposits. The key behind all this is to find the deposits that currently make economic sense to develop. You can decide, “Oh, these metals are important”, but unless you have those deposits in the right places and can make an economic case that they need to be developed, you're not going anywhere.
Those alliances would allow us to share information, but we already share information at the industry level among mining companies. We already share those technologies. It's going to come from both Canada and Australia understanding they have the endowment, and then from working together in partnership with the government on selective strategic infrastructure to make regions within both countries investable for investors.
That's the bottom line. We forget about all this. I've spent time in Washington. They're gung-ho. They're going to do this. They're going to do that. They're going to put capital here. The missing link in all this is having deposits in the right place that make economic sense, and having the skills to develop them.
The key, again, is processing. Canada was a leader in mining and processing when we had the Falconbridges, Norandas, Incos and Alcans running refineries and building mines. We need to get back to that type of mindset. It may be 1970s thinking, but that's going to underlie the start of the value creation chain.
In terms of what we do after that, I would agree with Mr. Balsillie, Nadia and Heather. Start to capture the technology and research that will allow us to take advantage of and improve the economics.