I'll be really brief, and then I'll ask Tom to also address your questions.
Let me summarize that with biofuels, ethanol, and the global situation, we're in an era of tumult. The history of economic forecasting is that people aren't very good at forecasting tumultuous times. That's why we're not recommending solutions. We're not saying that biofuels are going to take over, that hog production is going to sweep the country, or that everyone is going to be driving ethanol-fuelled cars at 25% ethanol. All we're saying is that these changes are taking place, so what processes do you need to enhance Canada's competitive position?
First, you need a lot of research. It's dumb not to have a lot of research. We're in a knowledge-based era, and we've been underfunding research. Other countries, like Australia, have been investing more in research than we have.
Two, we can't forecast exactly how much each of these areas is going to contribute to the economy or to agriculture. What we can say is let's be as transparent and open as possible. A lot of our reporting has to do with recommended forms of consultation, forms of round tables, between the commission and all the interested parties. I mean, we can't even know who the interested parties are, because in this case there are so many of them. That's why one of the headaches we had was deciding what a board of directors might look like. In the end, we decided not to recommend one, just because there are so many interested parties.
So we can't even know who the interested parties are, we can't forecast the demand for ethanol or biofuels or hogs or anything like that; we can just come back and say that process really matters, that transparency and accountability--