First of all, to start at the front end, is the sorting process. That needs new technologies. There are all kinds of inventors out there. We're pretty good at that. I think we need encouragement and funding to help that out.
Then I think there's the process itself. We need to refine that process. I mentioned the valley of death. When you have something, you have a test plant, it's working. Now it's working, and you've fixed the bugs in it. That takes 10 years. Now you go into actually commercializing it. Who is going to buy this? That's where your big problem comes in.
Anything we can do to help what are basically small businesses to get from that invention stage to developing test plants, to building a prototype, and then to the commercialization.... A lot of that is salesmanship. A lot of that is going out to various governments in different places. All of that takes support and cash. Anything we can do to help them with writing down some of their costs in invention, anything we can do there in a tax....
I don't like just handing out money, because so much of that is just a waste. I think SDTC does a good job of vetting, following, and reporting, but they have a limited amount of money to do that with. There's where we could put more in. That's a federal project.
I think, as well, the federal government needs to provide the leadership. They need to tell the provinces and the municipalities, “Hey, we're behind your going into new projects to get this whole thing going.”
As I mentioned, I'm most familiar with the Alberta carbon program, where there's a fair amount of money put in for companies that put out too much carbon, and they pay a penalty: $15 a tonne. That fund is growing rapidly and is being used for environmental projects.