Let me be very frank.
The lithium-in-brine resources in Canada, while vast, are definitely not the best ones in the world. If you look in Alberta, you have brines that maybe have—I'll speak in concentration numbers—75 parts per million or 100 parts per million. You can double or maybe triple that in Saskatchewan, which is quite good. There are fluids in the United States, in other basins and in South America that are much richer. I think there is a game to be played there in developing technologies to extract lithium, for example, and other critical minerals from brines.
I've been a huge advocate in Alberta for thinking of this not just as a mining project. Why not have a company somewhere in Canada—it could be placed anywhere—that's developing patentable technologies? You would then have a group of highly educated engineers, scientists and people running the business who can then license that technology not only to other Canadian companies, but also outside the country.
We lack a technology-oriented industry in that regard, certainly in the oil and gas sector historically, but now in critical minerals. I would be reticent to see us go down the road where we get an ore out, process it to some sort of rough grade and then ship that—in this case it would be a concentrated fluid that contains lithium—overseas where they have electrolysis plants that can produce the battery salts and make all the money-making lithium-ion batteries or other products. I think that's a risk for sure.