Thank you, Mr. Chair.
We're always fighting the clock. Mr. McTeague will know that well from his years of service, which I thank him for.
For my first question, I want to build on a theme that Mr. Carrie was working on in the last panel, which was around best practices.
Dr. Hoicka, in a paper you wrote back in November, you said that you “have yet to come across any jurisdictions in developed economies that have implemented policies that support the diffusion of complementary renewable energy sources”.
Reading that report, I was thinking of Energiewende in Germany, the 10-year program around transition. I was fortunate to visit Bottrop in Germany, and I saw their district energy system. It used to be a coal mining centre. The transition in Germany has really relied on government subsidies of different types.
Could you comment on Energiewende and how that might relate to Canada and the study that we're doing around subsidies? Have you come across that in your work? I'm going to assume you've looked at that.