Well, I would certainly try first, I guess, to look at the overall energy policy of Canada and to see where we as ministers have to push, where we want to push. It wouldn't be worth fighting against other agendas. Do we have a clear agenda here to introduce solar? Are we serious about it or not? So of course I would pump in more money and more resources there.
One thing I also said a year ago is that I would be very stable. I would go for a long-term commitment in supporting solar energy development and solar energy deployment, definitely, and not for sunset programs, or two and a half years one way. We have seen in other countries that what really does work is government support that is steady. So let's make it safe, make it smaller, make it steady. That's certainly one way I would go.
Again, on a long-term vision, I would certainly envisage looking at the energy mix again, because the goal here is not to try to have the whole of Canada switching to solar energy; it's to have the whole of Canada having a coherent energy policy that does include all technologies--a phase-out, if possible, of fossil fuels, because we'll have to go there anyway. We'll have to phase out of this anyway within the next 100 years, so we might as well begin and get a headstart on that.
I would certainly try to move away from the fossil fuels with that energy mix as quickly as we can do it without hurting the economy. Again, without hurting the economy, I think countries like Denmark with wind and Germany with solar have proven they can build wealth out of renewable energy. It's not a theory; it's actually a fact. So I'd try to move away from that. With the resources that Canada has at hand, we could actually move towards that. I can see we would have 25 by 25--25 gigawatts by 2025. I would try to go that way.
So that would build a solid solar industry here, and we could actually export our technology, like the Germans and the Chinese do right now, to the rest of the world. I think we could do it, especially for space heating.