First would be a competitive benchmark from government, policy to policy. I know it's ever-evolving, but especially if we look at post-COVID, apart from stimulus, what are each of the countries doing to help their companies in the sector grow? That's one benchmark.
The second benchmark is around financing. I know there's a rebirth of the Canadian Commercial Corporation, which looks at how to get our companies very close to governments that are spending. That should be benchmarked in terms of federal government instruments, whether it be through their own bank, like EDC-BDC, or leveraged companies. How do we benchmark that against other competitors, the export development bank type of competitors?
I'm looking at both of them.
The third thing that is really hard to benchmark, which you're alluding to, is around our own culture of innovation as a nation. We are, if I may say so, a nation of cruise control. We like what we have, so why disturb it when things are going so well? Unfortunately, with the global energy transition, some of us have been in this sector for a couple of decades waiting for what we have seen happen today. I'll be honest. It's actually moving at a much faster pace than I thought, whether it be big companies or small companies, but also with the amount of capital that is being unleashed in terms of energy transition and decarbonization.
Therefore, this is the question for a nation like Canada and members of Parliament like yourselves: If the wave is already here, how do we ensure that we build the right surfboard for our companies and our people and then actually ride that wave all the way through? It's not going to be a blip. We think it's going to be at least the next 25 years.
Competitive benchmarks are one thing. Working together is another thing. What I would say to you as members of Parliament is that Germany has employed this through multiple government transitions. All the parties have always agreed on what the core thing is for economic development and have stuck to it. That would be one of my asks. On the key fundamentals, if it is going to be greenhouse gases and climate change, can we all align to ensure that there's a consistent wave forward so that we can crest this from a company perspective, but also a people perspective?