Thank you.
Dr. Klein, you talked a lot about jobs. You say that the agricultural energy system would not create a lot of jobs. This week, the Commission sur l'avenir de l'agriculture et de l'agroalimentaire québécois submitted its report. You may not have read it yet, but I can quote some of its contents relating to biofuel development.
It is estimated that the ethanol industry in the United States generated revenue of $41.1 billion and created 160,000 jobs in 2006. In the European Union, it is estimated that for each percentage point by which oil is replaced with biofuel, 45,000 to 75,000 jobs were created, 50% of which were in agriculture.
Are you familiar with these figures? Do you think this would be possible? Why do you think it would not be to Canada's advantage to develop the biofuel system, if only for the job creation aspect? I understand that there are other aspects to this. Not a lot gets said about them. You get credit for telling us about them this morning. So I would like to hear what you have to say about this.