A really useful measurement is in jobs. But it's not just direct jobs; it's also indirect employment. I know that my colleague from the Canadian Renewable Fuels Association will have some stats on this, but for every ethanol plant that's in place, there are hundreds of farmers, if not thousands, who are supplying corn, and that is their income. So you can work that out. There are thousands of people who are earning their income by providing feedstock. If we're looking for a made-in-Canada solution, growing the biomass and harvesting the biomass provides a lot of input back to the economy, back to communities. This doesn't get captured when you just measure the number of jobs at the refinery or at the mill. There might only be 40 people working at the plant, and that doesn't look like a big win after you've spent half a billion dollars. You have to look at the number of people whose jobs depend on various related industries. I could talk about environmental, too, but I'll stop there.
On March 19th, 2013. See this statement in context.