So you are saying that the ideas are there and that the technology is ready, but we still need to bridge the gap toward marketing on a broader scale, with the goal of making this technology marketable and usable for the industry.
Mr. Bouthillier, I am going to interrupt you. Perhaps we can come back to these questions.
Mr. Irving, in the last budget, $260 million were allocated to research in the oil industry for the study and development of carbon dioxide capture and storage techniques. In addition, $300 million were allocated to the development of the CANDU reactor and laboratory in Chalk River.
As a businessman who works in the forestry sector, what do you expect from the government? There are still a few days before March 31 and the government still has a portion of the surplus that it could distribute before deciding to use it all to pay down the debt. As an industrialist, how much do you think the government should allocate to the sector for innovation-oriented research and development?