I'd be happy to.
I think Canada and the United States are natural partners in this area, not just because of our close geographic proximity but also because of our similar attitudes about the role of government generally in commercial activities. I think it should be a two-pronged approach when seeking out collaborations there.
One prong is in the education, workforce development, basic research and development area. For example, there could be government-to-government collaborations assessing the resource potential of unconventional primary resources. What's the potential of recovering speciality materials, things like gallium, indium and tellurium from mined wastes that, at present, are unrecovered? What are the opportunities in the areas of commercial policy, public funding and collaborative efforts at pilot and demonstration facilities to speed along or accelerate the deployment of new technologies even more aggressively?
There could also be industry-led collaborations involving entities from both countries that focus on priority, raw-material supply chains, perhaps modelled after something called SEMATECH in the United States in the 1980s and 1990s, which basically sanctioned industry collaborations toward a strategic priority, semiconductors.