Thank you, Mr. Chairman.
Good afternoon, Mr. Lunn.
I don't want us to get bogged down in the figures, but roughly speaking, if you factor in contributions from other departments, the government has invested somewhere around a billion dollars this year in atomic energy, for security, etc.
On the other hand, when you consider the amount of money invested in renewable energy—and let's not talk about biofuels for the moment because that's another issue and I'd like to come back to it later—you decided to allocate $111 million to it. This is completely out of wack in my opinion because that envelope includes wind energy, passive solar with water, active solar with air, biomass for heating, wave energy, run-of-the-river hydro electricity—that's on the horizon—gasification of garbage. There's also geothermal energy and included in that, and I want to stress this, there's deep geothermal energy and low-level heating geothermal energy to produce electricity. According to a report published in the United States—and this is valid for Canada—by 2050, if we were to invest in deep geothermal energy alone, we'd produce all the electricity we need, and that's from the heat that's found in the ground.
So given this—and I'm sure you're aware of these projects—you have decided to invest $111 million and almost 10 times that amount in nuclear energy. Don't tell me where you're investing the money, Mr. Lunn; I know where it's going. Tell me why you're not investing more in renewable energy. You said earlier, and rightly so, that there is major economic development, and that half of our exports come from natural resources and that you are very sensitive to the environment and health and that because of all that we don't need any reassurance. We need reassurance when it comes to nuclear energy, but not for that. Tell me why you're not investing more money in these forms of renewable energy.