Looking at a different strategy is an option.
I want to be absolutely clear here. Our industry is not looking for an exemption at all. In fact, we want to be part of this process, what we call the output-based pricing system, because like every other industry that falls into this category in provinces across the country, we need to be able to restore the revenues we pay into the system so that we can reinvest in our plants. Whether it's the auto industry or any other manufacturing industry, you have to be able to restore and invest in your plant to continue to make it competitive. Otherwise, it's just another tax, and it's a tax that competing plants in other jurisdictions don't have to pay, which means we're at a competitive disadvantage.
We want to work with the government on a process here that would be fair and effective in terms of its objectives to reduce greenhouse gas emissions but would still enable our industry and any other industry involved here—whether it's oil, chemical or whatever—to be sustainable in Canada and able to function under that regime.