Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Thanks to all of our witnesses for being here.
I want to talk about the overall market environment for critical minerals. I think we can all absolutely agree that there's a place for robust industrial policy and smart interventions by Canada and the provinces. Of course, we also want a free market with supply and demand and price signals.
There are a couple of problems that come to mind for me. The first problem is domestic. Mr. Dunn, you identified unequal treatment of critical minerals. Second, I think we have an international challenge. First, it's a race, as you mentioned, Mr. Gaulin. Second—and this has been touched on by many witnesses—not every nation wants a free market. There are interventions in an otherwise operating free market. I'll get to that if time allows.
Mr. Dunn, I was pretty compelled on first exposure that helium should be treated like other critical minerals from a flow-through and ITC perspective. I want to give you the chance to elaborate on that and inform the committee as to whether there are other areas where treatment is uneven or where we should take extra care to make sure that we're not distorting the market and creating other unevenness throughout.