Environment committee  Money has been earmarked and provided for in the clean energy fund to support renewable energy.

Natural Resources committee  Theoretically, I think, it means we could.

Natural Resources committee  But that would be part of our market analysis in terms of what the regulation would do to the marketplace. Were we to say that only this paint makes it in Canada and there are no other suppliers of it, that would be an enormous part of our market assessment, if you're creating a

Natural Resources committee  The bill doesn't tell us that we have to regulate everything that falls into our scope. We're two years into a four-year program cycle right now. What John does, as we head into a cycle, is evaluate the marketplace and look at the most material energy savings from products that f

Natural Resources committee  Excuse me if I inferred that automobiles were exempt. The act gives the Government of Canada power to regulate things that fall within the description of the scope. The government has made a decision to regulate automobiles using a different instrument. In fact, the government ma

Natural Resources committee  Yes, that's right, but just because the act gives you the authority to establish a standard doesn't mean you have to. We choose--the government chooses. The government “may” establish standards. So right now the government has the intent to do 30 products in a four-year period. N

Natural Resources committee  Sure, I'll let John respond.

Natural Resources committee  We won't come looking for you.

Natural Resources committee  We'd have to write a standard against it, but the amendment would bring it into the scope of the Energy Efficiency Act should we determine that there were material savings and there was enough variation in that kind of product in the marketplace to warrant bringing a standard int

Natural Resources committee  I think we're always happy to put the largest share of our budgets into the effective work, as opposed to the monitoring and scrutiny of that work, but a certain amount of evaluation is necessary to ensure you're doing the best job you can. In this case, it helps us to just put i

Natural Resources committee  But we would be working through the federal governments, who often have a good view, just as we do, of what's happening in Canada. Despite the fact that we don't run the regulatory system in B.C., we have quite a good idea of what they're doing, so working federal government to f

Natural Resources committee  I'll give that a start. Thank you for the question. John can support me on that. On the last one, on stockpiling, it's oriented to the dealers, not the individual consumers. So if you wanted to stockpile light bulbs, this would not affect you. It was aimed at the seller of the l

Natural Resources committee  I think it really has been the calendar, because we've been essentially ready with these amendments twice previously. However, we haven't been sitting idle and waiting for the amendments. In December of 2008, John was able to publish new and more stringent regulations for 11 pr

Natural Resources committee  Under the auspices of this act, but otherwise outside the act, we provide advice to companies to improve the energy efficiency of their transport. But that is not part of this bill.

Natural Resources committee  We are not covering automobiles at this point in time. The government has made the decision to cover automobiles under the Canadian Environmental Protection Act.