Mr. Chair, currently we have a number of activities in two areas where we're supporting research and program activities to further the supply of renewable fuels such as ethanol, as the deputy has mentioned, and biodiesel for applications in commercial trucking and other uses.
Our activities currently take the form of research and development to try to determine which feedstocks are the lowest cost, and get out the technical bugs, if you will. Sometimes bugs come in ways other than in the forest; they come in the use of new emerging fuels and how they interact with the technologies we need to use them in.
We also have activities that are closer to the market where we're working with the transportation sectors, truckers, and the makers of the technologies to try to determine how best these new fuels can be integrated into real life. That's further to market take-up and deeper penetration in the marketplace than the research and development activities.
So we really have activities going on in two streams, and I think they will probably continue into the future, although I don't want to prejudge where ministers will decide how moneys will be allocated. But there's definitely activity under way.