I spoke before about the need to have a reliable regulatory structure and strong government support for AECL, which has developed CANDU technology and employs over 20,000 Canadians. Without strong government support and commitment from the provincial and federal governments, and regulatory support, that technology probably won't survive.
The other technologies that CANDU competes with internationally, and in Canada, are strongly supported by their governments, politically as well as economically, and in every other way. We need to have that commitment from the Canadian government and all of its agencies. AECL is a crown corporation; CNSC is a regulatory agency; and the federal fisc have supported AECL for years. So that all needs to come together.
The other question, I suppose, is provincial government attitudes. Is Alberta going to want a nuclear reactor in the tar sands, which would cut down carbon emissions heavily? New Brunswick is talking about a new advanced CANDU at Point Lepreau.
Things have to come together here and all the pieces need to be there. It's an industry that for the first time in many years, not just in Canada but also around the world, is talking about building new nuclear reactors, and that's particularly vital for Ontario. So we need to get on with it; you don't build these things overnight.
If I could just make a point about your question on the U.S., we do 4% of our business in the United States. We did 13%, or $650 million, in Africa last year. We did twice as much in Europe as in the United States. We did more in the Middle East than in the United States. As Steve was saying earlier, probably at least 50% of our services exports go outside North America, and that's certainly true for us.