There are so many ways you can skin the cat. I appreciate Monsieur Poilievre's comments on grants. I only wish it were true for things like biodiesel and whatnot; billions were provided in grants for something that we're not sold on as a fuel. We could also be looking at LNG and stuff like that.
Governments find ways to do different things. The Prime Minister, back in 2008, promised he would eliminate 50% of the excise tax on diesel fuel. That hasn't happened. What we said at the time was that there were good arguments for getting rid of that archaic tax, particularly in a GST/HST environment, but rather than getting rid of it and having the money go off wherever, why not take that money the government would otherwise lose and put it into a program like this, where at least the companies that are doing the right thing would get some benefit from it, as opposed to just reducing the tax?
We have to decide as a country whether we're really in the game of reducing greenhouse gas emissions or not. The industry is moving in the direction we want; it's a question of whether we want to get there in the next few years or in the next 30 years. That's really the issue.