Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Thank you, gentlemen, for being here.
I'll go back to Mr. Bellavance's question and bring some more clarity to it.
When we talk about second-generation biofuels and where we might be headed in the sense of the need, in some eyes, to move away from the first generation--which leads to the debate you tried to clarify about the issue of whether it affects food prices, because that is the debate--clearly you've articulated your position. But there are some on the other side of that equation, of course, who will articulate it from a different perspective, because the second generation obviously takes that argument away, in the sense that it wouldn't necessarily be easy to say that it increased the price of food when really what we are using is the byproduct of the food production, whether it be biomass, whether it be cellulosic, or whether it be the use of other materials that farmers have used. And farmers are ingenious folks who manage to be able to use the things they have, whether they're selling them to someone else or not.
Perhaps you could comment briefly as to where you see that headed in a more wholesome way, besides the fact that you're suggesting, Mr. Passmore, that some sort of government funding is needed to take us forward on that.