Ladies and gentlemen, thank you for your presentations. Mayor Mandel, I'm pleased to be here in this dynamic city of Edmonton. Congratulations to you and your councillors and staff for the way you manage the city.
I've a question for Ms. Manasc and the consulting architects. I take your point about incentives for green building design. I think there's a lot more we can do, a lot more that deserves study.
In our most recent budget, the government provided, on a fifty-fifty basis with the provinces, $1.3 billion over two years to support renovations and energy retrofits for social housing across Canada. Several co-op housing buildings in the city of Mississauga, where I'm from, have taken advantage of that funding and are now doing energy retrofits. I wonder if you could comment on whether you think this is a worthwhile program that should be expanded.