Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Hello, everyone. I know a lot of faces on the screen. Again, I apologize for the delay. This is a classy panel that we have here.
I'm joining you from Sudbury, where we have eight operating mines right now. I know Samantha is here as well in Sudbury. Actually, the irony is that this morning I was with a businessman who works in electric vehicle batteries. This is a person who is looking at making very important investments in this sector. Certainly we're talking about reusing existing batteries that are used in mining vehicles. We know that a lot of them were actually manufactured right here in Sudbury. There's a lot of amazing technology that is being produced, created, here in Sudbury.
Six minutes will not give me any time to really dive it into what I'd love to talk about for hours, because this is a very, very important file for my riding and, I certainly believe, for Canada.
Maybe I'll start with you, Ms. Espley. With your knowledge and your experience, maybe on the processing and manufacturing side, what opportunities do you see and what challenges do you see with regard to what more we can do here in Canada? I know that here in Sudbury we're lucky. We have two huge smelters, some of the largest in the world when it comes to nickel. Given your experience, how would you say we could increase our processing and manufacturing capacity for our minerals here in Canada?