Natural Resources committee  I think there's a need for knitting this together nationally and for sharing information. We need some leadership politically, and we would like to call on the Minister of Natural Resources to assume that role. We'd also like to see this committee support that call, including all of the things Carol was talking about, whose benefits can be brought to the country.

Natural Resources committee  Yes, that's in fact precisely where we're at with QUEST as we talk to the provinces and hear about the kind of growing interest in provincial QUESTs. Everybody's saying the real needs are to start deploying these things in real projects to show what they can do, to get the metrics and the measurement down, to prove out the reductions in cost and energy that come along with it, and to share the information.

Natural Resources committee  Well, you've heard from Mike about several in B.C.

Natural Resources committee  One of our messages is to try to bring balance into energy policy. Some of the macro policies around carbon capture and storage and generation and so on are on one side of the equation. On the other side are community-based energy systems, where half the energy is used. We're trying to bring a balance in the policy framework, to bring more attention, more systematic attention across the country, to this agenda.

Natural Resources committee  QUEST is a fairly new initiative. It really just got off the ground in 2006. We've had two major workshops, and a third one is coming up in Quebec City this year. The two were at Niagara-on-the-Lake in Ontario, and in Victoria, B.C. In both cases, we found at the provincial level that there was a desire to form what we'll call a provincial QUEST, from the stakeholders at the provincial level.