Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Thank you to the witnesses for taking the time to come here today and also for all your hard work in the past and moving forward. In the mining industry, obviously, we have a lot of good things happening. The downturn is cyclical, as we talked about, but we're getting out of it and your work is going to help to achieve this.
My question is for Vic. I'm going to ask my first question on the innovation side.
We've heard at the committee from COSIA on the oil sands and the importance of investment in innovation. You've indicated, obviously, Australia, and we were a leader there, and now we're 26th.
Can you give us some specific recommendations of what the federal government could do to support the mining industry, just targeting on the innovation side itself? Maybe we could utilize best practices from Australia, because they've taken some of our best practices in the past.