I think it's important to note, when you're looking at carbon, that the issue of global warming or greenhouse gas emissions is global, and our global competitiveness is not based vis-à-vis the U.S.; it's based on what happens in the Middle East, in Russia, in China. And if you dramatically increased our costs in Canada with some kind of carbon charge, whether it's cap and trade, whether it's tax, whatever, you would end up pushing manufacturing production offshore. We've done some benchmarking work with Natural Resources Canada on our energy efficiency. We are number one in the world and we don't have any room to improve.
If there is a charge, it's simply a cost, and you would end up increasing global GHG emissions because we're more efficient than other parts of the world. Our manufacturing plants in Alberta, which were built in the mid-1980s--and the last one was built in the mid-1990s--are still more energy efficient than the new plants being built in the Arab gulf right now because our industry invested in the best technology, in the highest level of energy efficiency.
So any cost would affect our global competitiveness, yes, absolutely, and in our view, it would be unfair and unreasonable.