I agree entirely with Mr. Whiting. Your question relates to development of the technology and investing public funds in those technologies. On the other hand, we are putting all our eggs in one basket, when this technology has not been tested. It is still at the research and development stage. I have no objection to oil companies investing in it, they have every right to do so. But I object to investing the little money allocated for what is called renewable energy, in Canada, in that kind of technology. We really are not certain that it will enable us to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, and if it does, we don't know the amount of time for it to be possible. It may be in 15 or 20 years. But we have Canadian technologies today that we could bring forward and that would enable us to reduce those emissions immediately. It's total nonsense.
On April 27th, 2010. See this statement in context.