Merci beaucoup.
I'd refer to the committee a letter from the Minister of Finance on May 31, 2006, in response to the Sierra Legal Defence Fund, which deals specifically with the question of whether there's an imbalance between the renewable and non-renewable. I'm happy to make that available.
Secondly, I think it would be interesting for the member to know that one of the biggest sources of investment capital in the renewable energy business is the oil and gas industry. The biggest developer of wind power in Canada is Enbridge, a pipeline...TransCanada, a pipeline; TransCanada, a coal producer. The biggest user of solar-powered equipment in Canada is the oil and gas industry because it allows us to power. If you look at biofuels, tidal power across this country, one of the returns being made by these companies is going directly back into the renewables industry.
Do we need to do more? Yes, I think we do. I'll give you an interesting challenge that we're now facing. We've invested so much in wind power in Alberta that by 2009 we won't have the transmission capacity to move the electricity we're generating from all the wind turbines we've built.
In Ontario, by the way, Mr. Tonks, it is in even worse shape when some of these big projects come on.
What's very interesting is you see these big investments going in, but the rest of the system isn't keeping up with them. We have some real challenges as we go forward on some of these.
I'll be happy to make this available to the committee, Mr. Chairman.