Yes, thank you, Minister.
One thing you talked about here, of course, was the farm lobby; you just came up with it here. The farm lobby in the States is a lobby that lobbies for its own economic benefit, like so many of the industries that lobby the governments in Canada and the U.S. Now obviously, that lobbying is happening in Canada, too.
Biofuels in particular is about the only group you and I have met with, probably jointly, that says, “Yes, long term we might bring jobs back to Canada, but we're a net importer significantly of biofuels right now and will be for the foreseeable future”, as you can see from every U.S. piece that looks at this and says, “This is going to be a gold mine for American farmers for the next 10 years.”
How do you justify that in the context that biofuels themselves produce a lot of greenhouse gas in their full life cycle? It takes 1.6 units of energy to produce one unit of energy in the biofuels industry. Square the circle for me, please, Mr. Minister.