I very much share the concerns of the Mining Association of Canada. These are measures that are designed to help produce critical minerals that our allies need and to help process critical minerals. That's important in the fight against climate change. It's important to help our allies from an overall energy security perspective, and it's critically important in terms of reducing dependence and reliance on China. These have been delayed for months now because of the Conservatives' obstruction in the House. These will help our mining sector to create hundreds of thousands of jobs and billions of dollars in economic activity. It's pretty shocking that, at a time when the cost of living is up, the Conservatives would block measures that will create such good-paying jobs and, to be honest, would aid the Government of China in terms of increasing its dominance with respect to critical minerals and critical minerals processing.
One of the things that are in supplementary estimates (B) is money for the Saskatchewan Research Council to actually develop a process for processing rare earth elements, which are all processed in China right now. It is ridiculous, the kinds of things that are being blocked by the obstruction of the Conservative Party of Canada.