I think it's because the wonderful thing about clean technology is it is the nexus of the different systems, in that it is providing both an economic and environmental benefit and it does not have to degrade either of them. If you look at SMEs, which are the majority of the clean-tech companies, they provide economic opportunities in urban and rural communities across this country. They are the engines of 75% of the job growth, as I stated earlier.
If you look at that, the intent around improvement in the environment and the health of Canadians, health is linked to the quality of the environment. If that's distributed widely across the country, that is a direct benefit. The issue has been that with these clean-energy technologies--Canada is a clean-energy superior country--we have to be able to get a relatively high capital equipment expense of technologies into the market. That is not easy with an investment community that is used to more of the ICT side, which is a lower investment. So there's an absence of risk capital in Canada.
The government plays a policy role in addressing that risk capital. As you can see from my last slide, which I didn't speak to directly, we're already getting good investment from Europe. We'd like to get more of that money into our companies. It's a very logical combination.