Well, I think a lot of it is....
The flow-through share is one concept that we use a lot. I have been on the board of BIOTECanada, and we've always positioned that as something that would be good to have on the life science side beyond the oil and gas sector. If you look at the success it's created on that side, we feel it could benefit this side as well.
I work closely with the people in Guelph--Gord Surgeoner's on my board, and I'm on the board of Bioenterprise as well--and we talk a lot amongst ourselves on things that are needed, looking at trying to create a venture capital fund for agriculture through Bioenterprise, as you're probably aware, and having some success there. People aren't closing the door in our faces, anyway; they're listening to the story. We'll see what happens.
But that's more of a private sector fund. The other area I see that's needed, or that would be nice, would be some way to provide guaranteed loans. When I look south of the border, when we're having discussions with the bio-based chemistry industry about locating in Canada, a lot of them find that when they're south of the border they can get a $50-million-plus guaranteed loan quite readily from the federal system there, and probably some other state funds. We don't need that size, though, I don't think.
When BioAmber made the decision to locate in Canada, they looked at 100 locations. The other 99 locations were in the U.S. They looked at four or five locations very diligently, but at the end of the day they made the decision to come to Sarnia.
In that decision, we were able to work with them over the last six or eight months to help cobble together some funding of around $35 million between provincial and federal funding. They made the decision to be in Canada simply because it made more sense from a practical standpoint and a financial standpoint for them to be located in a place like Sarnia rather than in the middle of a cornfield in Iowa. They are, at the end of the day, in the chemical business once they produce their bio-based chemical.