Thank you, Mr. Chairman, and thanks to the panel for a wonderful presentation on renewable energy.
Certainly the concepts you have talked about, like the 40- to 50-year lifespan of the investments we have to make in the technologies for coal plants and hydro plants, are significant investments for Canada. We need to understand how these fit into a national perspective.
We haven't talked a lot about transmission here, but I've heard some things. Certainly the concept of an east-west grid linking Canadian provinces where appropriate and economically feasible would serve very well to build a conduit for renewable energy. You can't put renewable energy in a pipeline, but you can put it on transmission lines, and it is the likely means to deliver renewable energy across the country.
To TransAlta, the linkage is maybe to British Columbia, and in the past you've had opportunities to share with British Columbia. I know you've had difficulty establishing a large wind resource in Alberta because of the intermittency of the supply there. Do you think there are solutions that could come with better linkages to British Columbia and better understanding of the regulatory regimes between the two provinces, to allow you to utilize the storage capacity in British Columbia to develop your wind resource?