We're talking about these rare metals, these critical metals. What we haven't talked about is how easy or how difficult it is to extract them. Finding the deposits is one thing; exploiting them profitably is another.
I'll give you a really good example that's close to us in Quebec. It's Niobec, which produces niobium. Do you know that only 59% of that niobium is being recovered, while 40% is actually going into waste? This is a huge challenge.
If we talk about Strange Lake, again, yes, we talked about the infrastructure, but what we didn't talk about was how easy or how difficult it is to extract the metals from the minerals. The Chinese have developed technology for Bayan Obo, if we're talking about the rare earth elements, and they have just a couple of minerals that they're working with. If I go to some of these deposits in Canada, I see that the mineralogy— in other words, where the metals are—is quite complex, so the federal government, in my view, needs to be investing money into trying to improve the level of extraction.
I've given you the Niobec example. We're talking about all of these lithium projects, and my own research group is heavily involved in lithium. What we've seen is that there are serious metallurgical problems and that there could be real investment in the metallurgy. Let's not forget the metallurgy.
I'm sorry I got off track, but I think this is important for all of you.