Emphatically, I disagree with your witness, because clearly this is not a level playing field, when I can show you that we don't have the same provisions in place as the other renewables, or as oil and gas, and yet I have all of these members.
All of these members are not making any money, but they know how to do it. They've brought their enthusiasm, they've brought their prospecting, they brought their technology, and they brought their financiers as well, but they can't spend a dollar, because they can't get the permit. They can't get the actual right to tap into the resource, and so we need to level the playing field.
The other thing that's a bit of a punch line here is that on this slide we have done all these things in Canada for the oil and gas industry. We already know how to do it, we know how to provide that incentive, but we can't take geothermal energy with all the promise of jobs and food security, electricity and heat, and give it one thing in the budget, but then leave out all the other things that would bring it parity.
Now, we're going to be cherry-picking. We made great strides in getting the ability to have renewable heat classified as renewable energy from geothermal, but we can't leave out all the other parity pieces that the other renewables, oil and gas, get, There needs to be a focus group, and a sweep of dealing with geothermal in the sense of bringing it as a credible energy form the way that many European and other countries have that are combatting climate change, but at the same time creating jobs and doing it in a sustainable way.