Natural Resources committee  Which process do you mean?

Natural Resources committee  It depends on the nature of the project. It's not specific to the one you're referring to, but certainly having dialogue with the Manitoba government on projects and activities around critical minerals and collaborating is something we're doing. It's something we started through

Natural Resources committee  Thank you for the question. To build on the comments by Deputy Hannaford, I would say that very clearly you've struck on two very important minerals, and of course the development of how those minerals reach market and what they're used for is extremely important. In view of tha

Natural Resources committee  I think, as has been referenced, that transaction happened in the market and it was an acquisition of a Canadian-controlled company. Under the Investment Canada Act, like all investments, it was reviewed. In that act, there is the requirement that state-owned enterprises that acq

Natural Resources committee  I think that's perhaps a question for Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada, but certainly the act has all the provisions that are necessary for Canada to take a look at acquisitions, as I said, that happen by state-owned enterprises, as well as those that require c

Natural Resources committee  China has the largest—

Natural Resources committee  The honourable member may take that position, but I'm not sure I'd take the same view.

Natural Resources committee  All of the things are reviewed. What I was pointing out on lithium was just that there's the production of lithium and the processing of lithium, and that difference is quite profound. In terms of the production of lithium, the two largest producers, which dominate some 45% of t

Industry committee  I think it's a question about what the market looks like and what will happen over time. Lithium is a critical mineral, but as was pointed out, not all critical minerals are alike. Canada does have domestic critical mineral resources for lithium, and so does the U.S. In fact, Aus

Industry committee  I can't really answer the question with respect to specific transactions. I'll just say that the lithium market certainly has a lot of players in it. Demand for it is going to grow, as you pointed out, and Canada does have its own resources in terms of lithium, some of which—

Industry committee  Yes, of course. Thank you for the question, Mr. Lemire. We have an annual meeting involving the provinces, territories and the federal government. It's called the Energy and Mines Ministers' Conference. In addition, working groups involving assistant deputy ministers and deputy

Industry committee  We have discussions with Quebec companies and other companies, but the discussions between the businesses are somewhat vibrant discussions with companies that work [Editor's Note: Technical difficulty]. It depends on the type of discussions, such as natural resources or minerals,

Industry committee  Sure. Thank you very much for the question. We have a very active dialogue that has been ongoing for two and a half or three years with the United States as a critical mineral joint action plan and we have collaborative work with the U.S. under five working groups. It's shared a

Industry committee  The U.S. actually has tendencies very similar to Canada's in this space. They have a list that's similar to ours. The list overlaps with Canada's quite extensively. The responsibility for critical minerals in the U.S. is scattered among a number of different departments. Their

Industry committee  That's a good question. Canada's fortunate in that there are 20 different lithium projects active in Canada, spread across Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, Ontario and Quebec. Canada has two different types of lithium resources. We have lithium brine resources, which are simila