Okay. Thank you.
Mining is a rough business. I keep hearing on the radio how we're going to move up our timelines from 15 to 10 years. There are very few mines that get up faster than that, because these are complex ore bodies that have to be identified. Money has to be raised.
There was a very interesting cobalt mine they were looking at in my backyard, just up the road from me in the town of Cobalt where I live—and it stopped. I met one of the geologists, and I asked why they had stopped. It was because once pot became legal all of the investment money went to cannabis shops, and that was it for the cobalt production. That's the market.
What role can the Canadian government play in terms of equity stake? How would that work? Are you talking about giving junior mining companies funding tax credits? What are we going to get in return? What is an equity stake if we're talking about critical minerals?