My concern then is that if we spend our billions we still may accomplish nothing because we're not significant. I'm not saying we shouldn't do something. I'm just arguing that perhaps the approach should be to leverage our technology to the substantive contributors.
In my second question, I want to talk about my riding of Sarnia—Lambton, which as you may know has a large number of refineries including Shell and Suncor, which you've talked about, and ExxonMobil as well. We also have NOVA Chemicals, which is looking at doing a billion-dollar polyethylene project all coming from the Marcellus shale gas based on methane. Obviously, for my riding it's a huge concern for them at a time when electricity prices from Ontario are 17¢ a kilowatt hour and they're looking at the cap-and-trade system being brought in, and they're concerned about a second federal price either on carbon or on methane.
Our industry locally is transitioning to the bio-economy so we have BioAmber; we have a bio-refinery from Comet; we have huge innovations in renewable energy and clean tech and we're in the transition phase. My concern is, what will the government do to recognize that these are very tough economic times and we have these multinational companies that have choices about whether to invest there or not. We want to make sure that we don't over-punish them while we're transitioning to the bio-economy.