Thank you for the question, Mr. Simard.
We have the materials, the mines and the talent. As for what's missing, let me give you an example.
We have a graphite mine and we want to make this material marketable. We would like to produce spherical graphite from the mine and purify it. Unfortunately, we don't have the industry in Canada to do this, so we have to buy machines from China, Japan or elsewhere.
The federal government therefore needs to work closely with innovation institutes to expedite the development of this industry so we can manufacture the machines close by and be independent, not only in terms of the supply chain but also manufacturing. There are trade secrets, intellectual property and so on, which makes for a very weak link. Appropriate government investments would help us solve this problem. We need to ensure that the processing happens here in Canada for this to be successful.