Thank you for the question.
British Columbia is known to be ahead of the game in many instances.
What's very important, referring to what the two previous speakers said, is the flexibility of the approach.
If you live in the Lower Mainland, electrifying new builds is a very clear path forward as clean electricity becomes available, but we need higher levels of energy efficiency to be able to electrify. We also need flexibility in other parts of the province. For example, in colder climates in the northern part of the province, from our perspective, it's quite acceptable to have hybrid systems to make sure that people have adequate cooling and heating during the different seasons. Right now, heat pumps are the technology of choice, and they work very reliably to -15°C. They also work beyond that, but they need to work reliably. The technology is evolving. Flexibility is really important.
It's also important to align programs. I welcome the comments from the FCM and the GMF program. It's important that, across the province and the municipalities, the programs are aligned, because they need to complement each other. If they compete with each other and if it's fragmented, then you could potentially hinder adoption and you could change the outcomes you're looking for. Alignment in this day and age is important.
The climate is changing in western Canada. We not only have issues such as flooding—you're from Victoria, but we have the same here in the Lower Mainland and some low-lying areas, like Richmond—but we also have the overheating that we're now seeing in British Columbia, and quite significantly in the summer. A third one is wildfires, and this speaks to air quality.