Thank you very much, Mr. Chair.
Thank you again to our witnesses for taking a second day to be with us, and I apologize for the gas leak last time. It's ironic that we're talking about clean technology and we have a gas leak in downtown Ottawa.
I'm going to start with Evergreen. You were talking about the focus and your emphasis on incentives, and incentivizing the industry. Certainly I know in Alberta we are feeling the impact of the energy downturn more than maybe other provinces, and I think we'd be naive to say that some of that, or a great deal of that, is not because of uncertainty in policy. However, things like a carbon tax, I would say, would be a punitive way to try to encourage innovation and technological advancement in the industry.
From your perspective, your company relies on the big companies being successful and having money to purchase your products. Why is your focus on incentives rather than other initiatives like a carbon tax? What do you see as the benefit of offering incentives to encourage innovation but also to apply that innovation?