Thank you for the question. I'm not a doctor, just so you know.
To respond to that, as I indicated in the presentation, in the absence of any price on carbon and any realistic market price on carbon, in essence we are faced with a situation where we make choices in the electricity sector without full information with respect to pricing. In that regard, many governments around the world, including Canada, have taken steps to put in place programs that help provide a signal to the marketplace that helps to improve the relative competitiveness of clean energy technologies.
In Canada that program has been the ecoENERGY for renewable power program, established in January 2008 with an objective of supporting the deployment of 4,000 megawatts of renewable energy by March 2011. It's an extremely successful program that will meet its target this fall, a year and a half ahead of schedule. Again, in the absence of having any carbon price framework in place at the current time, we as an industry are looking to government to step forward and indicate that, in essence, support for the deployment of clean energy technologies is not simply ending this fall but will indeed be renewed or continued going forward.
That's very important because, as I noted in my presentation, we are competing with other countries for this investment. The United States has made it very clear that it wants to be a leader in clean energy technologies like wind energy and has put in place programs to encourage and stimulate manufacturing and deployment of these technologies. A failure to do so in Canada will see, in fact, investment dollars leave Canada for the United States, creating jobs and opportunities there that we could have here.