Well, we have a few obvious ones, and they were, I think, highlighted in my remarks but also in those by NRCan. I think one of our advantages is as leaders in environmental, social and governance issues. When I've been to Europe, back when I was able to go to Europe, and have met with industries there, I have been told that their preference is to source from Canada because they know they can rely on the quality and the rigour of our mining practices. They would rather not have to source from the Congo, for example, or from China, if they can get it from Canada, so that is certainly one advantage.
In many parts of the country, we have an abundance of hydro power, and with your grid connected, you're producing metals that have some of the lowest GHG intensity in the world. Nickel, for example, mined in Sudbury, is some of the lowest-GHG-intensity nickel in the world.
We have, obviously, one of the safest mining industries on the planet. I participate in meetings of the International Council on Mining and Metals. Safety is very important to our industry's culture. They regularly put up annual statistics on fatalities in the mining sector around the world, and Canada never appears on their chart. We just don't rank, which is a good thing. You don't want to be on that list.
We have a highly skilled labour force. We're a very high-tech industry. We're advancing in areas like automation. We're advancing in areas like electrification. So we have many, many advantages, but we also need to be conscious of our challenges, and I flagged one of the really important ones.
Currently some of our metals do come from off-grid mines, and carbon pricing is going to be a challenge for those operations unless we can support those facilities. Specifically, mines like Voisey's Bay in Labrador or the Glencore mine in northern Quebec are off-grid, and yet they are two of the world's most important high-grade nickel mines on the planet, and huge assets for Canada. They also have cobalt as by-products. So we need to think about this. We can't just take it for granted.
The last point I'd make is that, as we all know and as Jeff mentioned in his remarks, this is a vast country and we have everything the world needs. We're not necessarily exploiting it, but we certainly have it. If we can get to it and create the right conditions, we could be in a very, very strong place going forward.
I don't know if my colleague Brendan Marshall might want to add to that, or if, Mr. Chair, that's enough from me and from us.