Thank you, Chair. Congratulations on your new role.
First of all, I'll go to Ms. Doran at Clean Energy Canada, for a couple of reasons. First off, Clean Energy Canada is situated at my alma mater, which is Simon Fraser University. It was 25 or 26 years ago—not to date myself—but it is a place where I grew as an individual and completed my first degree.
I do want to just put on the record—it's not a question—that I agree with the commentary that was issued: “When building Canada's EV battery supply chain, the sum is greater than the parts”. The two EV battery plants, Stellantis and Volkswagen, are strategic investments for Ontario and for Canada. Beyond that, they are part of a larger picture in which you have to measure both the direct impacts of those plants and the indirect impact of then setting up and putting into place an actual supply chain. Canada was recognized for that in the BNEF—the Bloomberg index—when we moved up to second place globally on the electric vehicle supply chain.
I always look at things as a continuum, whether it's the housing market or the industrial sector. This place is the automotive sector, and the electric vehicle sector is a continuum. This is what we're doing in Canada very strategically, where we are putting in place the pieces for a supply chain through a continuum, which will benefit Canadians not just today but for generations to come. I thank Clean Energy Canada for that.
My question, however, is going to go to the folks at the Chemistry Industry Association of Canada. I've worked with you folks for a long time. Many years pre-COVID, I went out to the Alberta industrial heartland and visited the facilities. Some of them are being constructed; they are multi-billion-dollar investments.
I do believe in global competition, and we need to always measure that in place, but can you reference it in the global marketplace? There is leakage. We do know that. Our goal is to reduce greenhouse gas emissions here in Canada, but also globally. Can you talk about the global competition for these types of facilities and the opportunities that, for example, Alberta as a province has within our beautiful country? I would be really happy to hear that.