Thank you.
I have a question to Professor Plourde. I'm trying to understand in more of a business scheme, because I've sat with a number of heavy industry groups over the last number of years to try to understand what the impacts of these types of policies would be for them. Has there been any research done by you, or any literature that you've come across, that has looked at industries that have gone about a reduction in their greenhouse gas emissions? I'm thinking particularly of the smelting industries, the heavy users, some of which have gone ahead and done sometimes significant greenhouse gas reductions from 1997, when they thought the then government was going to impose something. In terms of productivity...and this is a question that economists struggle with all the time. Canada seems obsessed with it, in terms of increasing our productivity.
Am I wrong in saying there's any relationship between how productive an economy is and how much waste it produces through its industrial processes?