Thank you, Mr. Chair.
I appreciate the thoughts of our new parliamentary secretary—welcome to the committee—and his reason for voting against this amendment.
Perhaps I'll say why we'll be voting for the amendment and why it was brought forward.
It couldn't have been clearer. The question to the witness was whether energy bills would go up as the result of these rules, and Nova Scotia Power said yes. That is the reason we moved the amendment. You have a taxpayer, a market participant, telling you exactly what is going to happen when this passes, and that is an increase in energy bills. That's okay: If you don't want to vote for lower energy bills, that's fine, but we do.