Thank you, Mr. Speaker. My

questions are for the Minister of Industry, Tourism and Investment. I would like to speak briefly about Avalon Ventures project which is moving towards a prefeasibility study. In fact, I think their first meeting is today. Mr. Speaker, it is going to be necessary early on in the process to decide which road they go down; local value-added with their rare earths or actually deciding to ship the concentrate elsewhere for development and further processing. Mr.

Speaker, there are only facilities for this in China. There are none in North America at the present time that are operating. This is a real opportunity. What is our government doing to investigate this opportunity and to determine the key factors and let the developer know of our interest at the beginning of their feasibility study when we can actually have a chance to nail down some of this value-added activity? Thank you.