Thank you.
Boy, this is a really interesting panel. Thank you for your presentations. They're very focused, and I think your recommendations build on what we've seen and heard in other tours or panels. The fact that you are very focused is helpful for us.
I read somewhere recently that Germany is on track to create by 2012 about 400,000 jobs through green energy. It seems to me that not only is this the right thing to do, not only is this the sane and healthy thing to do, but as an economic development tool, as a wealth creation tool, as our manufacturing sector changes and evolves, this is an area Canada ought to be a world leader in.
We have such a vast geography, vast coastline, such abundant natural resources. I guess that's been a plus and a minus, because it's made us lazy, perhaps, in some areas in adapting to a green-energy future.
You've outlined some of the things you think we need to be doing. And I hear you saying we should focus on the winners, the ones that we're doing well, and build on our excellence to become world leaders in the things that we do very well. Picking those winners and those sources of excellence is always a challenge, because the one that perhaps has been a leader may not continue to be a leader.
Do you have any advice in terms of how the government, going forward, can make sure that we're not just running behind the Denmarks and Germanys but that we are in fact leaders and really exploiting the natural abundance that we have? That's a sufficiently open-ended question for you all.