The federal government hasn't adopted any specific targets for renewable energy in any of these sectors.
The question of targets comes up all the time in debates on renewable energy. Some people argue that it's important to have targets because you need to have a vision that can portray a sense of direction for all the various federal, provincial, and industry stakeholders. The reality is that your ability to realize those targets depends on market forces, technology developments, and provincial policies, as well as federal policies. Many of these levers are beyond your control.
There's always a concern, on the other hand, that if you're too ambitious in developing targets, how does that square with a market-oriented system for producing energy? Does it then simply become a vehicle to criticize governments for not providing sufficient money down the road to realize those targets? People will land on different sides of that debate.
The only other comment I would have is on manufacturing. I don't think Robert had time to really address that.
Right now, for most of the wind side, major manufacturers of turbines are located in Europe. At some point a few years ago, the hope was that with the appreciating dollar, the very large size of the blades—they're half the size of a football field—and the heavy transportation costs, there would be a facility located in North America. We were kind of in competition with the United States and hoped we could attract it to Canada. I guess that hope remains, although my understanding is that firms have recently been looking more at the Chinese market as the location for investment.
On the Canadian side, it may be that we should be looking at some niche technologies that we could specialize in to increase the Canadian content in manufacturing above where it exists now. There has also been an array of provincial policies, particularly in Quebec, that have tried to encourage assembly and some manufacturing in Quebec.
Robert, you may have more to say on the manufacturing side. I think it's an important dimension as we go forward.