Thank you, Mr. Chair.
I'd like to thank the witnesses for being here. It's been a very interesting discussion so far.
I'll start with Ms. Concepcion.
It seems that a couple of times you've been left at the end of a question period and haven't had time to really say what you want to say.
I'm going to pick up on the EV topic. You said we had crossed the point of no return. I saw a recent poll where it showed that 70% of Canadians were seriously considering buying an electric vehicle as their next car, and that Canada was well positioned to take advantage of that.
Earlier in this study, we heard from Eagle Graphite, which has a mine in my riding. James Deith talked about how difficult it was when you don't have that value chain within Canada to buy and sell your products, and had to sell it elsewhere, and that China controlled a key part of that chain.
Could you expand on that? How can Canada, and perhaps more specifically the government, stimulate this? How can we develop that value chain, whether it's graphite, nickel, cobalt or any of the rare earth elements we've heard about?