Thank you, Mr. Easter, for your question.
Obviously the CRFA is very supportive of moving the mandates for biofuels beyond the commitment that has been made by the government. We absolutely endorse a strategy of taking an ethanol mandate to 10% and a biodiesel mandate to 5%.
The critical issue—I think Mr. Friesen touched on this in his comments—which is worth bringing forward, is that the proposal currently before Parliament of 5% and 2% would, as we said, result in about 2.5 billion litres of ethanol and a little more than 500 million litres of biodiesel by January 1, 2010.
What is critical for our industry, of course, is that we want to build the capacity here. If the government or Parliament were motivated to look at an increased mandate beyond that, it simply would be met by import. When you look at the size and the scope of the industry in the United States and the capacity they have to supply biofuels, not only to Canada but around the globe, that mandate could be met by import.
We of course don't want to see that happen. We want to build the domestic industry first. A 5% and a 2% target is achievable by 2010. We are on pace right now, with the level of production and construction that is under way in the industry, to meet that target. But that's just the beginning, and the CRFA very much advocates going to a much larger target in the future.