Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Mr. Thiele, I have a quick question for you.
In your opening remarks, you talked about the near-term reality and, among other things, the inputs needed for storage technologies. I can't help but see a connection with the critical minerals sector. As part of a committee study, we heard from a witness who told us about a rare earths project, among other things. He told us how difficult it was to refine rare earths, which include several elements that are essential to the battery industry.
Could you give us more details on this input issue so that we can see how to improve the Canadian value chain? Of course, the critical minerals sector can be improved, but there must be other sectors that can be improved too, if we really want to improve our value chain when it comes to storage. Can you tell us more about that?