Thanks, Mr. Chair.
The critical minerals strategy was underpinned by a $3.8-billion funding announcement, which was in part around exploration, in part around infrastructure and in part around research and development. Those funds are in the process of being unlocked right now. We are looking at the full value chain, as I mentioned earlier, with respect to these minerals, not only because of the availability of the minerals themselves but also the importance then of their application in the value chain.
I would say that the piece around the speed at which we can look at the assessment process and the regulatory process generally are things that, as the minister mentioned, have a couple of facets. One of them is work that's being done internally in the government right now to look at how we can be building efficiencies. That's being led by our colleagues at the Impact Assessment Agency.
The other piece is the regional tables process. The intention there is that, for those areas that we've identified as priorities, how can we be as focused and as efficient as we can be within the parameters of the rules we've established?