Thank you.
I want to thank the witnesses again for coming before us today and for their patience.
I'll start with a question, broadly, for Mr. Labonté from NRCan and for PDAC. These critical minerals and metals are often found in very small amounts, I imagine. For instance, in my riding we have the Teck smelter in Trail, British Columbia, which produces mainly lead and zinc. It also produces germanium and indium in enough quantity—it might be a matter of only a few kilograms, maybe 10 or 20 kilograms; I forget the amount—to be one of the major suppliers for the world.
I'm just wondering about the challenge of actually finding some of these critical minerals—perhaps like lithium or cobalt—and the role the federal government could play there. I guess specifically my question would be, what directions and funding the federal government is providing to the Geological Survey of Canada to provide better information for prospectors and other companies to actually find these materials across our big country?