If politicians build an election campaign and win an election on the premise that an energy infrastructure is going to be shut down, then you could imagine some mobilization taking place. Unfortunately, we know that it's possible to mobilize certain segments of voters against certain infrastructure. This has been the case in New Hampshire and Maine, where there have been protests against power lines to bring Canadian hydroelectricity to the United States. Major developments have blocked energy projects that were not only good for the United States but also for Canada.
So it's very important to counter this trend. Otherwise, political mobilizations against projects that may otherwise have significant economic and environmental benefits could become more important than the regulatory and environmental analyses that projects undergo. If we give the impression that we can mobilize against such projects, that can lead to “not in my backyard” syndrome and very significant problems. When we look at the importance of electric power transmission for the decarbonization of our country and the United States in the future, we see that we are absolutely going to need more interconnections and power lines between our countries. While this is very positive, there may also be people who are against these power lines. So if we leave too much room for political games in these decisions, it could complicate the energy transition enormously.
So it's really the rigour and the overall framework for decision-making that needs to be addressed. This case clearly demonstrates how we could go off track and lean toward a political decision, when the majority of economic, energy and even environmental indications lead us to conclude that this is an infrastructure that has its place in the overall energy infrastructure of our two countries.