On the conversations about exporting power, we've only scratched the surface on that. I don't think our government has ever asked B.C., for example, if they'd want to buy power from Yukon. It's been a different conversation.
We've also, in my opinion, wasted some time and energy in the last exercise on next-generation hydro because we didn't consider the first nations traditional territories from the beginning. We ended up with a list of six major hydro production areas that didn't have the consent of the first nations whose traditional territories were going to be affected.
My current chief of staff spent 14 years as the president of the Yukon Energy Corporation, and this is a conversation that we have all the time. There are opportunities with Skagway, right next door, in terms of exporting power to Alaska. We have cruise ships that are coming up the harbour right now, docking, and using the diesel power. I believe it's illegal, but there's a consideration made because there's no alternative. There's an opportunity there for us. We definitely want to ask Canada again if there's consideration of a national energy grid and to have conversations about building that, now that B.C. is moving further north with their hydro lines and their hydro power considerations as well.
To answer your question, yes, but because it is pretty far, it does get expensive. There is a little bit of bleed-off with those distances, but it's a conversation that we're always willing to have.