Agriculture committee  In five minutes or less, that's going to be difficult.

Agriculture committee  I don't think I need to do that. I think the crisis we've identified within the bioeconomy—and that includes forestry; that includes the automotive sector; it includes chemicals, pesticides, and crop life and the agriculture industry—is that we all have different champions in go

Agriculture committee  Are you talking to me or are you talking to them still?

Agriculture committee  I was very confused, because you were looking right at me when you asked the question. I would echo my friend's answer. I think the more funding that's available for research and development, the better. It's not as if there is a limitation on how much can be made available, th

Agriculture committee  I think that is the most important question. It's not as if they can't invest in several different types of renewable energy at the same time. I think our focus would be on making sure that consumers have choice at the pumps to make their transportation technology work, with the

Agriculture committee  The municipalities are already funding garbage. They call it tipping fees. Instead of having tipping fees that go to destroying land somewhere else, we would suggest that those tipping fees be directed at investments like the one that Enerkem made in Edmonton to diversify 95% of

Agriculture committee  Again, I am a lawyer by training, I'm not a chemist, so with that background.... They are producing methanol right now and they will be in a position to convert that methanol chemically into a cellulosic fuel. My understanding is they will be doing so very soon. Their official

Agriculture committee  No, these are all commercial-scale facilities. The one in Edmonton is 38 million litres a year, so that's approximately 10 million gallons. That's a small ethanol plant by comparison to some of the larger plants, but it's still a significant amount when you consider how much etha

Agriculture committee  There is no one who is happier to debate the food and fuel argument than this guy right here. It's mostly simply not based in scientific fact or in economic data. We produce more food today on less land in Canada than we ever have in our nation's history. We think that the econom

Agriculture committee  Absolutely. As I said in response to the last questions, the core funding that we were able to attract allowed our companies to reinvest in research and development. I think the capital that was deployed from Sustainable Development Technology Canada was also very helpful in dri

Agriculture committee  The first website I look at every morning is the Chicago Board of Trade because it has prices for natural gas, prices for ethanol, prices for dry distillers grains, as well as the corn itself, and the feedstock that goes into it. Absolutely. The assumption in your question is h

Agriculture committee  Absolutely. I think the successful side of the equation is the ethanol side of the eco-energy program. We saw plants created from scratch as a result of having strong government support, and we've seen those plants flourish in Ontario, Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Alberta, and Quebec.

Agriculture committee  We have four. It takes a long time to get you 85% in Canada. The reality though is that our fuel markets are very different. There are far more independent owners in the United States so they're more willing to try different fuels, different combinations. We would like to see m

Agriculture committee  The primary source of funding for innovation in our sector would still be the private capital markets—there is no doubt about that—but business support programs like AIP, for example, act as a beacon to attract that investment to Canada. Other programs like Sustainable Developmen

Agriculture committee  Thank you very much, Mr. Chair.