The opportunity for Canadian companies is the really exciting piece. Unfortunately, the previous government didn't understand this. We have amazing Canadian innovators here who can take advantage of the $23-trillion economic opportunity. If you want to grow your economy and you want to create jobs you need to be investing in these companies. You talk to CarbonCure. CarbonCure is a made-in-Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, company. It captures carbon pollution from industry and then injects it into concrete: stronger cheaper concrete.
I had the great pleasure of being in a manufacturing company in California where I was wearing my hard hat with the founder, a McGill graduate from Dartmouth, who was showing us technology. He's creating good jobs here in Canada. I was also at Dalhousie University where I met Jeff Dahn. He's a leader in lithium ion battery research. He was the first researcher to ever partner with who? Tesla Motors. I could go on.
We could look at Alberta. I visited a manufacturing facility that creates super-efficient net-zero homes. This is a company, Landmark Homes, which employs 300 people in Alberta. Also, there is Shell Canada. We don't always think of our energy companies as being clean innovators but they are capturing carbon dioxide from an Alberta upgrader and storing it nearly two kilometres below the earth's surface. They are on track to store nearly a million tonnes of carbon a year. In Foam Lake, Saskatchewan, Milligan BioFuels is turning damaged canola seeds into biodiesel, a cleaner fuel that can power cars, trucks, and buses in our towns and cities. There are so many examples. In Winnipeg, Farmer's Edge is a global leader in precision agriculture where farmers are part of the solution. They are using cutting-edge hardware and software that allows them to waste less energy, save money, and increase their profits.