Mr. Chairman, I can answer this question.
The rare earth industry is very small. Probably a small number of mines will move into production. Rare earths are critical in specific applications, and this is what makes their study, and the advancement of projects, so important.
For example, the Critical Materials Institute in the United States has identified source diversification for rare earth in order to identify safe resources they could tap into to feed the manufacturing industries in the U.S.
The Critical Materials Institute is very interested in Canadian projects and in collaborating on the scientific aspects of rare earth to identify new sources and to potentially look at how supply chains could be strengthened by greater collaboration between the two countries, which are neighbours.