Mr. Campbell, your presentation is quite similar, in many respects, to those made by previous witnesses, including one person who works in the solar energy sector. This particular witness informed us that, as far as he knows, both hydroelectric and nuclear energy benefit from public financial support, which made it possible to build and develop a network. This has been rather expensive for taxpayers, but costs are spread out over 20 or so years. In so doing, we were able to build significant infrastructure for electricity production.
Similar to what those working in the solar energy sector are saying, you claim that producing electricity could be a competitive endeavour if you were to benefit from the same financial support from the various levels of government. Once your infrastructure is built, it would then be truly possible to talk about competition between the different types of energy production. Earlier, it was said that none of the tidal power, wind, nor solar energy are competitive. The government's financial support to certain types of energy is not being taken into consideration.
In your document, you briefly talked about the investment needed to develop a tidal power network. In the terms of a financial structure, how much would you need in the form of subsidies, support, or incentives to truly give the impetus needed to quickly develop this tidal power energy network?