Mr. Speaker, that is a very good question and the answer is, absolutely, yes.
I participated in committee hearings over a two year period and issued my own report. Why was that important? We heard testimony from many parties, including major researchers in this country.
I also attended an oil sands fair, and I went around to all of these new technologies and asked what the key barrier was to their not selling their technologies. They said that it was the lack of regulation. The government is not requiring anybody to clean up this sector, and therefore nobody is investing in cleaner technologies.
The technologies are there. We need to get them out of the lab and into the field. What is missing is federal regulation.