Good question.
I think in two ways, from a manufacturing point of view. This is the sector, by the way, that across the country has realized a 12% reduction in overall emissions since 1990, far surpassing the Kyoto target here, and the emissions were reduced primarily as a result of investment in new technology, which was also energy-efficient technology. So if you can provide incentives for that type of investment, it certainly makes a lot of sense from a business case. But also, of course, there are tremendous opportunities for companies supplying alternative energy projects across the country.
We've been talking about infrastructure, but the challenge to Canada over the next five years is going to be the following: how do we support the clean or carbon-based energy? How do we support the mining, forestry, shipbuilding, and upgrading projects that are across the country? There is tremendous opportunity for manufacturing and tremendous opportunity for clean energy and for clean technologies as part of that, because it's all going to be very tightly regulated, of course. But those are the infrastructure demands that we're going to be facing; there are tremendous strains already in terms of availability of labour and increasing costs.
So we have to figure out a way to ensure that those investments, which come from business, by the way, continue to be made. And the incentives, like the clean energy technology and the two-year write-off, are very powerful instruments that help those investments.