Mr. Speaker, I would be pleased to provide my colleague with some of the studies that have been done on this subject, including by Hydro‑Québec, an organization that we are very proud of.
Four out of five factors used in the full life-cycle analysis of vehicles show that electric vehicles are much better. This is true not only in terms of greenhouse gas emissions when compared to gas‑powered vehicles, but also in terms of the natural resources used. Gas‑powered vehicles burn and therefore use much greater quantities of natural resources than do electric vehicles, whose lithium batteries are 99% recyclable. As for cobalt, I will tell my colleague that cobalt is used in gas‑powered vehicles at the oil refining stage and that not all electric vehicles contain cobalt.
Nevertheless, the entire life cycle certainly needs to be improved, including the mineral extraction stage. We completely agree with that. All of this must also be reduced as much as possible at the source, of course.