Thank you very much, Mr. Chair.
Thank you all for coming.
Unfortunately, I won't have time to ask all of you questions. I'm going to ask a more broad question for both groups, the Green Budget Coalition as well as Canadian Climate Forum. I just returned from a forum in London talking about economic policy and climate change and how to meet all our Paris agreement goals. I hear you in terms of the funds, and the things you'd like to see. One of the things we talked about extensively was the need for a specific policy that is going to be overreaching, that would create private investment in innovation.
I'll give you a quick example. In the U.S., their defence procurement policy has put out a contract asking for someone to design a gun that shoots around a corner, and if there's anyone who can design that, they'll buy a lot of them. That puts a lot of the risk and the innovation in the private sector, with the benefit of the technology with the government in that case, as well as any technology that comes from it that might not be intended.
Funds run out and funds are short term. What are economic policies that would change and move the process forward to have innovation in things that are going to help us meet these goals?