Thank you—I think.
What are our opportunities and challenges? Let's start with the opportunities. The opportunities are exactly what Sam, George and I have been talking about today. There is a tremendous future for nuclear energy in Canada. There is a tremendous future for nuclear energy around the world, and Canada is well placed to capitalize on that.
We have a fully functioning critical mineral and uranium supply chain that's value-added. It exists here in Canada. We have multiple Canadian-owned technologies that we can export to the world. All of those technologies are going to need uranium, and it's uranium that Cameco mines, in abundance, in northern Saskatchewan. It is a tremendous opportunity.
What are our challenges? You've heard them today from my colleagues and me. It is the workforce. How are we going to train the people we need to mine uranium effectively and efficiently? Cameco is very fortunate in that we have tremendous relations with our indigenous partners in northern Saskatchewan. They want to come to work in our mines. Their businesses want to support our mining operations. We're the largest industrial employer of indigenous people in the country. How can we tap into that population of people who are interested and willing to work and live in the north, which is where they live?
It is the workforce and, frankly, if I may, it is northern infrastructure. When the federal government talks about supporting the north, it often talks about north of 60°. There is a tremendous band of economic activity just south of 60°, where the bulk of our uranium mines are. We need roads, highways and systems to move that resource, and that's because we are going to need to move a lot more of it. How are we getting that resource from northern Saskatchewan to Ontario and then to the world?
Those are the two that I would highlight.