Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Thank you all for coming before the committee.
I'm going to speak in French too.
My first question goes to Andrea Gabor or David Wise.
You mentioned transit and active transportation. You also mentioned federal infrastructure for LEED houses and sustainability.
I met two researchers from the Institut de recherche et d'informations socioéconomiques in Montreal who told me about a report from the United States describing best practices in efficiency. The report is called Energy Efficiency Job Creation: Real World Experiences. It talks about renovating whole areas of a city in order to make them more energy-efficient. It creates jobs and it uses no oil, either.
At the end of your document, you make four recommendations dealing with best practices, sources of funding and studying federal standards. How do you see the role of the federal government in energy-efficient construction in its various forms? Also, what would be the economic, social and health benefits of such a federal role?