Thank you, Mr. Jovanovic.
The response, I believe, in the FES to the Inflation Reduction Act was appropriate and obviously quite timely.
Today in one of its analyses, Bloomberg noted that Canada is now a close second with regard to the battery supply chain and that “Canada's recent investment in its upstream clean [technology] supply and increasing demand in the US-Mexico-Canada Agreement...increases the country's competitiveness”.
We know we've laid out $3.8 billion in our critical minerals strategy. A lot of that funding will flow to companies that I know are in my colleague MP Lapointe's area of Ontario. The tax credits that we've introduced will certainly assist that.
How quickly can we get the funds flowing from the $3.8 billion critical mineral strategy?
I take it that question would be for finance, natural resources or even environment, because it overlaps on all three. Whoever wants to jump in, that would be great.