It's okay, I'm all for more federal money into affordable housing. Don't worry about that. I'm just trying to look at dealing with that additional issue.
Do I have time for a few more questions? I have some questions for Capital Power.
I found your presentation very interesting, and I would appreciate your explaining to the committee why taxpayers should subsidize coal when for less money we could be deploying more gas, renewable, and retrofit at the same value? Why should the taxpayer be subsidizing coal-fired, which is in all cases the dirtiest source of power? It's cheap, because currently our federal regulatory standards are low.
Minister Baird promised higher air emission standards. We're waiting for those to be delivered.
I attended the World Business Summit on Climate Change, and there was a resounding, 100% recommendation from worldwide business--I don't think any Canadian business was there, but it was Europe, China, the United States, all over the world--that we need to put the high price on carbon now to incent the shift to a greener economy, as the International Energy Agency has said.
My question is, why should the taxpayer be subsidizing dirty coal?