Given that the topic at hand is the pan-Canadian framework, one of the things I think is encouraging about it is that in addition to the price on carbon we've been discussing, it has all of these measures that are intended to do things like free up and encourage capital to flow towards businesses that are innovating in this sector. That's not just someone coming up with some wild new storage solution or an electric car or something like that. It's also through oil sands companies that need to cut their emissions anyway, which they are actively and strongly pursuing as we speak, that those technologies will have an opportunity to develop and reach international markets.
Some of the really good first steps are there. As I said in my opening comments, it is my understanding, from people who are much more well-informed than me on this, that where Canada tends to not do well on that kind of technology development is in getting.... You saw this with the dot-com boom and the information technology boom before it. We come up with amazing ideas and they get capitalized and turned into huge companies elsewhere. I think some of the stuff—certainly, for example, that my colleagues at the Smart Prosperity Institute talk about a lot—is the kind of mechanisms alongside the pan-Canadian framework and some of the stuff in it that could be brought in that would help to get these Canadian companies.
One that I know of, basically out of a personal connection, is a company called CarbonCure out of Halifax. What they do is reinject CO2 back into the concrete production process. They just got a pile of money from Bill Gates' venture capital firm. They've gotten some money from the federal government. This is exactly the kind of company—I don't want to go down the road of picking winners and losers—that the pan-Canadian framework is trying to make a globally competitive company in a whole new marketplace that barely exists yet. I would say that's the piece of it that we're still figuring out.