Industry committee  It's the law of supply and demand. I'm repeating myself, but the Benchmark site reports that the company is building 240 plants at the moment, when it doesn't have the raw materials. Volkswagen announced a few months ago that it would have to buy 100% of the graphite produced ou

Industry committee  Mr. Masse, I'm going to answer the question in French, given that I began my comments in French. You're absolutely right. There was a pause at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, and prices collapsed, particularly for graphite and lithium. There was definitely a slowdown in

Industry committee  First of all, Canada is recognized around the world for its state-of-the-art mining expertise. We work everywhere around the world. We are highly versatile. There are therefore no concerns from that standpoint. We have no difficulty operating mines ourselves. We need to integrat

Industry committee  It's not making any waves today, and is not creating any problems because we don't manufacture batteries in Quebec or Canada. There are 240 battery manufacturing plants being built at the moment, but there are none in Canada. I would suggest that you visit the Benchmark Mineral

Industry committee  Mr. Dahn is an internationally recognized specialist. You have to be careful, because with lithium, it's called spodumene if it's hard rock, which is what we have in Canada. Spodumene is transformed into a y-form that can be processed into lithium carbonate or lithium hydroxide.

Industry committee  We do in fact have all of that already, but we are not a lithium producer yet. That will probably be the case in Ontario. What I'm saying is that we can't sell the deposits.

Industry committee  Yes, but it belongs to the Australians. We sold it.

Industry committee  Exactly. It's the same as it was for masks. When we needed masks, we found out that countries around the world were keeping them for themselves. When we need lithium, graphite and nickel, everybody in the world will be looking for them. The revolution we are experiencing at the

Industry committee  They come from Panasonic, but it depends on the agreements. In Japan, they come from Panasonic and Panasonic in Japan buys the anode from the Chinese company.

Industry committee  It's nonexistent.

Industry committee  Precisely what I said. I'd like to draw your attention to the following. The race is real. As you saw last week, Serbia withdrew the Rio Tinto permit for one of the largest lithium mines in the world. It gave environmental reasons as a justification, but everyone knows that it is

Industry committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. Thank you for inviting me to appear before the committee. My name is Benoît La Salle, and I am the founder and owner of several mining sector businesses. We operate internationally in the field of metals that are required to manufacture batteries: nickel,