Industry committee  It's going to be challenging. Coming from the oil and gas sector, I saw this play out over the years. When your resource is more expensive than everybody else's, it's really hard to sell it. It's hard to sell it internationally. It's even hard to sell it in Canada. There's a reas

Industry committee  I believe international investors have a broader perspective of what the opportunity is, and they have more confidence in the solutions that we're offering from a sustainability perspective and from an advanced materials perspective. I don't think Canadians are uneducated in thi

Industry committee  I think what investors are looking for in new start-up companies or companies that are in the resource extraction space for sustainable battery metal development is customer traction. You just don't get that in Canada the way you do internationally. My customers are in South Am

Industry committee  One advantage that Canada has is that these international producers of battery metals have been in production for decades. I'm speaking mostly of lithium because that's my specialty. They have 20- or 30-year offtake agreements with battery manufacturers out of Asia. They need t

Industry committee  Good afternoon. Thank you for having me today. I really appreciate the opportunity to speak with you. My name is Amanda Hall. I'm the CEO and founder of Summit Nanotech. I'm a professional geophysicist. I've been in the resource extraction space in western Canada for nearly 20