Natural Resources committee  Mr. Chairman, I will give a brief.... You talked about the barriers, and I think you touched on a number of them, as did Brent in his comment. To take it back to the basics, and I thought Mr. Dutton captured it very well in his initial presentation, it's not so much that they'r

Natural Resources committee  That's a tough question. I'm not sure that I have a very good answer for you, but let me make just one observation. What this really goes to—and again, it's a little bit related to my last point—is skills, business models, and understanding how you actually get it done. The way

Natural Resources committee  Let me take it back to the premise of your question, which goes to carbon pricing. I am not going to comment on the government's respecting its obligations or not. On a personal basis, I think Kyoto was a vast overreach, and it didn't surprise me at all that we haven't been able

Natural Resources committee  I'll be very brief. First, I would not want to comment on the number with respect to subsidies to the oil and gas industry. I'm not sure that I know the facts. We listed several areas where we see the federal government having a role in support of what we're doing. The answer

Natural Resources committee  I'll start, and I'll admit to something of a conflict of interest: I was the assistant deputy minister of Natural Resources Canada in the 1990s and was responsible for a lot of the energy efficiency programs there. They grew a lot after that. The basic point I want to make is t

Natural Resources committee  I'll start, and Brent may want to add to this. One of the key things is doing it incrementally. By that I mean there are examples of projects that have been built, and if you don't overbuild supply beyond what the load will take, you can make it work. Another one is putting th

Natural Resources committee  A little bit.

Natural Resources committee  Thank you, Brent. Mr. Chairman, for the record, the long title is actually two different parts of my title. I am here as a member of the board of directors of QUEST. For your reference, we've handed out copies of a deck. Brent has talked about QUEST in the context of communitie