Thank you very much, Mr. Chair.
I guess I'm going to open this up to any of the witnesses who would like to answer this question or want to take a stab at it.
Vaclav Smil writes extensively about energy transitions. When we talk about moving towards net zero in Canada and around the world, what we're talking about is an energy transition. One thing Smil says is that “all energy transitions have one thing in common: They are prolonged affairs that take decades to accomplish, and the greater the scale of prevailing uses and conversions, the longer the substitutions will take”.
Right now in Canada, only about 7.4% of electricity is generated by wind and solar or biomass. Given the complexity and difficulty of energy transitions, whether it's from wood to coal or from coal to natural gas, etc., why is the pace of this transition in Canada moving so slowly?