Thank you, Mr. Chairman.
Mr. Turk, I would like to come back to one of your statements. You said, and I quote: “[…] any plan that results in increased costs for some, but not others, will not be accepted by the public.” I come back to that sentence because that is the very reason why Quebec is opposed to the government's plan which, in actual fact, is intended to provide massive assistance for carbon capture and storage technologies. The oil industry has said that it would not be in a position to commercialize that technology without federal government assistance.
Have you done an assessment of what investments in this technology would mean for the Canadian public?
I would also be interested in your reaction to comments made by the president of Alstom Power, who said this last week with respect to the Project Pioneer: “The considerable size of the project shows that we are no longer in the testing phase, but ready now for commercialization.” So, we are no longer talking about research on this technology; we are talking about commercialization.
How much public funding will be required to commercialize this kind of technology?