Thank you for the important question.
On the question of an east-west grid, I'll echo the points of my colleague Pierre to some degree. It becomes a question about energy sovereignty and sovereignty of the two nations in the Canadian Confederation. It's very important that we're not just allowing our resources to be dominated by another nation. We're talking about manufacturing. This will become important as we go forward.
Why can we not envision a certain kind of national policy on energy that would be directing our natural resources towards building the economy, rather than getting back to this argument about sending all of our resources south of the border? Why not use them to the maximum advantage, as we have here, to build an economy?
On the question of alternative energy and so on, I can speak about green cars and developments in the automotive sector in particular. I cannot imagine why Canada and all of its leaders would not see this opportunity for Canada to get in front of this sort of technology, hoping that it's not almost too late in some areas. I don't know. If the world is going to move to wind energy, why shouldn't Canada position itself to be the greatest manufacturer of turbines, if we're going to be producing other kinds of alternative energy sources?
Whether or not we have some of the world's largest engine-building facilities, why are we not ensuring that we're on the leading edge of those new technologies? If the world is going to move towards hybrid engines or some other sort of thing in the auto industry, why wouldn't we be in front of that?
I think it's these sorts of manoeuvres or moves. The market itself doesn't necessarily allocate in a way that's going to be favourable for Canada. It requires government leadership and intervention to make that happen here. It would be a lost opportunity. We have that experience.
One of the specific sectors in the automotive sector is in light materials and manufacturing. We have the base for this in Canada in the aluminum sector, and at the same time the automotive parts industry and other secondary manufacturing in that sector, and in aerospace. This kind of thing takes somebody to help screw those pieces together and ensure that Canada is working to reap the benefits of this change in the economy.